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- Title
Manifestaciones bucales en pacientes con medicación antihipertensiva.
- Authors
Carlos Alvarez-Hernández, José; Milagro Hernández-Buchillón, Milena; Tusell-Hormigó, Diana; Morales-Cabrera, Marileidi; Guzmán-López, Ailen; García-Novoa, Sahily
- Abstract
Objective: To characterize the oral manifestations in patients with antihypertensive medication who attend the southern dental service of the Moron municipality, Ciego de Avila, Cuba. Method: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was carried out in the period from January 2019 to January 2020. We worked with the entire universe which was made up of 162 patients. The information was collected from individual dental medical records and from a data collection form created by the authors of the research. The variables age group, sex, antihypertensive drug group, dose of antihypertensive drug, clinical signs and symptoms, and oral diseases were studied. Descriptive statistics were used (absolute and relative percentage frequencies). Results: 42,6 % represented the age group 35 to 59 years and 53,7 % the female sex. It was observed that 88 (54,3 %) patients were medicated with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, 38 of them at their minimum dose. Xerostomia was present in 59,9 % of the cases. 63,6 % presented dental caries as a dental disease. Conclusions: There was a predominance of xerostomia and dental caries in most of the patients.
- Subjects
ORAL manifestations of general diseases; ORAL diseases; DENTAL caries; SYMPTOMS; DENTAL records; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE agents; CARIOGENIC agents
- Publication
Acta Odontológica Colombiana, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 2, p52
- ISSN
2027-7822
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15446/aoc.v12n2.100910