Control of arterial hypertension in the "10 de Octubre Project"

Authors

  • Reynaldo de la Noval García Instituto de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular. Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba.
  • Giselle Debs Pérez
  • Alfredo F. Dueñas Herrera
  • Juan Carlos González Pagés
  • Magda Acosta González

Keywords:

COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES, HYPERTENSION/therapy.

Abstract

1000 patients classified as hypertensives from the 5 health areas of the "10 de Octubre" municipality, in the capital, were evaluated with the aim of validating the quality of medical care affered by their family physicians in 1998. These patients were randomly selected at each physician office, where the were surveyed and examined. Some of them were visited at home. 68 % were fenales and nost of them were over 45. Blood pressure increased with age in both sexas. Non-phatmacological treatment was indicated to 82.9 % of these patients. 95 % of them were taking antihypertensive drugs and 68.8 % touk tehm every day. The most used group of drugs was that of calcium antagonist, whereas only 22.8 % took betablockers. It was finally found that just 40.8 % of the total of hypertensive patients were controlled. It was derived from the study that a considerable number of our hypertensives are not well treated as regards this chronic disease and that, as a result, the percentage of patient under control in this area is low.

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Author Biography

Reynaldo de la Noval García, Instituto de Cardiología y Cirugía Cardiovascular. Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba.

Especialista de I Grado en Cardiología. Departamento de Cardiología Preventiva.

Published

2014-03-19

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de la Noval García R, Debs Pérez G, Dueñas Herrera AF, González Pagés JC, Acosta González M. Control of arterial hypertension in the "10 de Octubre Project". Rev. cuba. cardiol. cir. cardiovasc. [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 19 [cited 2025 Feb. 11];13(2). Available from: https://revcardiologia.sld.cu/index.php/revcardiologia/article/view/456

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