Hipertensão arterial : aspectos da sexualidade socioepidemiológicos e clínico

• Ano de defesa: 2004
• Autor(a) principal: Garcia, Sonia Maria da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Hipertensão; Fatores de Risco; Sexualidade
• Link de acesso: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/2060

The arterial hypertension is characterized as one of the principal problems of public health of the contemporary world for your magnitude, risk and difficulties in your control. The arterial hypertension can influence the sexuality in way direct or indirect. This study of the descriptive type had as objectives to identify, among bearers of arterial hypertension, of both sexes, the profile partner-epidemiological and clinical, and frequency and the types of the present sexual alterations in that population. The study was accomplished at the clinic of cardiology of the Academicals Hospital Oswaldo Cruz (HUOC), considered reference in cardiology in Recife-PE 114 adults they were studied being, 39 men and 75 women, bearers of arterial hypertension in treatment ambulatory, of May to July of 2004. The data were obtained by direct interview accomplished by the researcher. The data demonstrate the age it varied from 24 to 65 years (52,19 year-old average) Great portion (80,7%) of the hypertensions they were married. With relationship to the education 64,9% informed first degree. Most professed to be Catholic, with per capita income varying from R$ 37,14 to R$ 1.300,00. Larger proportion of the hypertensions was classified as no-economically assets and they informed time of diagnosis among six to 10 years. Great portion made use of drugs anti-hypertensive among one to five years. When studying interruption of the treatment, the womem were the least adherent ones. When analyzing the healthy habits of life the desirable habits they understood the reduction in the ingestion of salt, weight reduction, practice of physical exercises and leisure and habits didn´t want the consumption of paper cigarette or of straw and the consumption of drunk alcoholic, and the women informed more the healthy habits than the men. Already, 55,7% of the total of the hypertensions informed to have presented alterations in you´re originating from life the diagnosis of arterial hypertension. With relationship to the evaluation of the existence of sexual alterations was not observed it differentiates significant statistically among the sexes (p= 0.3871). The more frequent sexual alterations among the men were the erectile dysfunctions, followed for the inhibition of the desire, and the women informed the inhibition of the desire, followed for the frigidity. Among the different studied variables they showed statistically significant, just to associations they will be alteration sexual versus occupacional situation and alteration sexual versus existence of leisure activity. It is concluded along the study that the hypertensions characteristics are shown similar to the patients of the country and they present alterations in the sexuality result of the own disease or of the aging. It is inferred that the individuals that don´t possess leisure and they don´t work, for if they maintain idle, they can be more affected by the diseases, interfering in the sexaul health.