Prevalencia del riesgo cardiovascular en pacientes hipertensos mayores de 50 años y su relación con el estilo de vida en la consulta externa del Centro Tipo C Materno Infantil y Emergencias IESS Cuenca, año 2020

Abstract

Background: hypertension is a public health problem, 38 million individuals die each year from non-communicable diseases, and 16 million die before reaching 70, in addition to its close relationship with the lifestyles. Objective: establish the Prevalence of cardiovascular risk in hypertensive patients over 50 years of age and its relationship with lifestyle in the outpatient clinic of the Type C Maternal and Child Center and Emergencies IESS Cuenca, in the year 2020. Method: a cross-sectional, quantitative analytical study was carried out with 159 people over 50 years, using the Framingham test to determine cardiovascular risk, the FANTASTIC survey before the signature of the informed consent. The data was analyzed with the SPSS free version program with descriptive statistics. Results: the mean age of cardiovascular risk was between 61 to 70 years with 40.3%, of females with 60.4%, basic education with 67.9%, urban residence of 89.3%, with low cardiovascular risk of 1.3%, moderate of 6.9%, high with 6.3% and very high with 85.5%, with a bad lifestyle of 13.2%, regular of 67.9%, good of 4.4% and excellent of 14.5%. A positive association was found between high cardiovascular risk and very high with lifestyle bad. Conclusion: a higher prevalence of women, between the range of 61 to 70 years with the mean age of 68.9 years, of urban origin, highlighting that cardiovascular risk increases in the population with a bad lifestyle.