Prevalência de hipertensão e diabetes e taxa de mortalidade dos idosos do município de Marcelino Ramos (RS)

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Kamijo, Claudio Frederico
• Orientador(a): Cammarota, Martin Pablo
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: MEDICINA; GERIATRIA; ENVELHECIMENTO; HIPERTENSÃO ARTERIAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIA; IDOSOS
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/3620

Systemic arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus are grave public health problems around the world, specially in Brazil. The aging process is related to cardiovascular disorders, which explain the frequent association of both hypertension and diabetes with the physiologic changes of that process. The main aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of hypertension and diabetes mellitus and the mortality rate of the elderly inhabitants of Marcelino Ramos-RS, Brazil for the year of 2008. We conducted a cross-sectional study covering the entire population with 60 years old or more, which were enlisted in the local public health facility. According to the records, it was a total of 1017 people. The prevalence of hypertension was 51,8% (48,9% for males and 54,1% for females), and the prevalence of diabetes was 8,9% (8,5% for males and 9,3 for females). The prevalence of both hypertension and diabetes mellitus in the same individual was 3,9% (43,8% of the individuals with diabetes mellitus also had hypertension). There was a trend for the prevalence of hypertension to increase with age, which was not found for the prevalence of diabetes mellitus. No difference across the genders, for any of the conditions, was observed. The mortality rate for the elderly population was 15,7/1000 inhabitants. The most frequent causes of death were cardiovascular disease and respiratory disorders (31,2% e 25%, respectively). Three out of six deaths from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease occurred in hypertensive individuals. Hence, we didn’t find any association between hypertension and mortality due to hypertension related disorders. There was a single death in the elderly with diabetes mellitus, from a cause not related to that disease, which didn’t allow us to establish an association.