Projeto de intervenção para minimizar o impacto da alta prevalencia da Hipertensão arterial na área de abrangência da Equipe Padre Geraldo Correa da Silva Loureiro

Abstract

Systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) is a multifactorial clinical condition characterized by high and sustained levels of blood pressure - BP (BP 140 x 90 mmHg). It is associated, often, the functional and / or structural changes in target organs (heart, brain, kidneys and blood vessels) and metabolic changes, increasing the risk of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular events, is not transmissible chronic disease with more morbidity in the world and Brazil knot, so always on top of the serious problems of public health and whose approach is the responsibility of all levels of care in the Unified health System (SUS). In the city of Cruzeiro da Fortaleza, arterial hypertension is a challenging problem for the primary health care due to a high prevalence in relation to media municipalities in the region and because inadequate control of blood pressure levels cause, directly or indirectly, damage individual health, exacerbating preexisting comorbidities: besides being a direct cause of hypertensive heart disease, a risk factor for diseases resulting from atherosclerosis and thrombosis, manifested predominantly from ischemic heart disease, cerebrovascular, peripheral vascular and renal. Thus, this study aimed to develop an intervention project to contribute to the adequate control of blood pressure in Cruzeiro of Fortaleza / MG city. For this, it was adopted as the methodology literature review on the topic Arterial Hypertension in order to identify studies that pointed actions in the care of primary care, which could contribute to this end. Therefore, the most suitable strategic way to mitigate the impact of the high prevalence of hypertension still focuses on multidisciplinary actions and Intersectoriality prevention and health promotion, the individual, family and collective levels