ENCUESTA DE PREVALENCIA DE NIVELES DE PRESION ARTERIAL EN EL RETIRO-ANTIOQUIA
Abstract
Arterial hypertension is one of the most common precursors of coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke and is both cause and effect of kidney disease (1). In Colombia, mortality due to arteriosclerotic and degenerative heart disease as well as mortality due to cerebrovascular accidents are among the ten leading causes of death and constitute 7.4% of all deaths (2). It is known that in Colombia, 9% of men and 10.1% of women in the population under 15 years of age have systolic pressures greater than 160 mm Hg and 6.6% of men and 7.1% of women have diastolic pressures of 100 to more than Hg(3).
It is also a known fact that there are large variations
in hypertension morbidity in different countries of the world, for example there are high rates of hypertension in Japan (4) and a virtual absence among the Cuni Indians of the San Blas Islands and some natives of Melanesia and New Guinea and Brazil (5).
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