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- Title
BLOOD PRESSURE TRACKING IN RESIDENTS OF A SOUTHERN MUNICIPALITY OF MINAS GERAIS.
- Authors
Pereira Costa, Bárbara Caroliny; da Silveira, Letícia Kuhn; de Souza Terra, Fábio; Leite Fava, Silvana Maria Coelho
- Abstract
Objective: perform blood pressure tracking in residents of a city in the south of Minas Gerais. Method: descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach, sample by convenience. Data collected in 2018 in public space, analyzed and presented in percentage data. Results: Of the 107 participants, 27,0% self-reported hypertension, most used antihypertensive drugs, family history for cardiovascular disease and did not receive guidance for cardiovascular disease; 86,0% had blood pressure values within normal parameters; 14,0% coincident values for stage 1 hypertension, predominantly among men 73.3% and the elderly. Conclusion: Blood pressure screening is necessary to make people aware of early diagnosis and treatment and an opportunity to carry out health education actions to promote health, control and treat systemic arterial hypertension.
- Subjects
BLOOD pressure; PUBLIC spaces; HYPERTENSION; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE agents; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; HEALTH education; HEALTH promotion
- Publication
Revista de Enfermagem e Atenção à Saúde (REAS), 2021, Vol 10, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
2317-1154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18554/reas.v10i2.4492