Hipertensión Arterial de pacientes con covid-19 en el Hospital General Manta

Abstract

The COVID-19 disease is the third outbreak of coronavirus pneumonia, caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, so far this century. It most severely affects vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, with immunosuppression and chronic diseases, including high blood pressure, highly relevant in mortality from cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, being a clinical marker of severity of patients with COVID-19 , manifested mainly in ages older than 60 years, and the preventive suspension of the aforementioned antihypertensive treatments can lead to shortto long-term clinical complications.The objective of the study is to determine the prevalence of Arterial Hypertension in patients diagnosed with Covid19 at the IESS-Manta Hospital, Ecuador. A retrospective, cross-sectional, descriptive, observational, quantitative approach study was conducted in patients between 20 and 65 years old, who were admitted from March to October 2020 to the second-level Hospital and referral for patients with COVID-19 in the Province. of Manabí-Ecuador. With a population of 905 subjects diagnosed with Covid-19, the controlled variables of age and sex were analyzed. The statistical analysis was based on the descriptive statistics of the AS400 database of the Clinical History of the Health Center. The prevalence of hypertensive patients diagnosed with Covid-19 is 58 for every 100 patients who were admitted for Covid-19 and age between 20 to 65 is equivalent to 84.8%.