A prevalência da hipertensão arterial sistêmica em adultos com idade entre 30 e 40 anos atendidos no programa saúde da família do bairro Santa Cruz, Caratinga/MG

Abstract

This intervention project emerges as an attempt to of hypertension tackling the problem in adults aged between 30 and 40 years attended at the Family Health Program Sinésio Brum Loyola, Barrio Santa Cruz, located in Caratinga/MG. This disease is a multifactorial clinical condition characterized by high levels of blood pressure, often linked to risk factors such as smoking and drinking habits, stress, excess salt and fat in the diet, obesity, overweight and physical inactivity and therefore the onset of heart disease, similar to heart attack and heart failure, which causes also of cerebral stroke, kidney failure, blindness, limb amputation and even death in hypertensive individuals. For develop, in most cases, chronic and asymptomatic way, diagnosis and treatment of hypertension are commonly neglected and should be proposed resolving and relevant actions to reduce or control and thus the various pathologies her associated.