Naranjo CEA, Fernández AMA, Espín FJC

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: blood hypertension remains one of the most common chronic diseases in our country and worldwide, being a leading significant factor for suffering from or severity of other lethal diseases.
Objective: to characterize the behavior of hypertensive crises of patients admitted to the intensive care area of "Dr Joaquin Albarran" teaching polyclinics.
Methods: adescriptive cross-sectional research was conducted from December 2010 through December 2012. The universe of study was 767 patients aged 15 years old and over of both sexes, who had gone to the polyclinic emergency service and required hospitalization at the intensive care unit. The results were shown in statistical absolute and relative frequency tables.
Results: the hospitalization of the 40-49 y age group (23.8%) prevailed followed by the 60 y and over group (22.1%). The main variant was hypertensive emergencies occurring in 442 patients (57.6%). The most used drug for treatment was Captopril pills totaling 562(93.2%). The main affected target organ was the heart.
Conclusions: the highest number of hospitalizations was observed in 40-49 years-old male patients, the prevailing hypertensive crisis variant was hypertensive urgencies and the most used drug was Captopril pills.

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