Hypertensive urgency in the Integral Diagnostic Center Bella Vista, Venezuela

Abstract

A descriptive study is done on the behavior of the hypertensive emergency patients who presented with this illness at the Integral Diagnostic Center Bella Vista, from January to December 2011. The universe consists of 250 hypertensive patients older than 20 years who went to this center more than three times which took a nonrandom sample of 164 patients also met the criteria for inclusion. To fulfill the objectives, it was applied a form in which was collected a group of clinical and epidemiological variables such as patients over 61 years, female gender, and workers from their homes. The 71.34% presented medical history of hypertension, more than half did not do the medical treatment or diet.  The abandonment of treatment was the cause of high blood pressure in most of the studied cases, the evolutionary treatment was considered satisfactory in 98.20% of patients, it is recommended to extend the study in other health institutions.