FACTORS ASSOCIATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION IN ADULT PEOPLE OF ANÁPOLIS

Abstract

The arterial hypertension is now one of the largest risk factors for the health in Brazil. The General objective of this study was to correlate factors associated to the development of the Arterial Hypertension in adult individuals of Anápolis. They were appraised through a questionnaire with 10 items, 203 (two hundred three) people with hypertension of both sexes with age between 13 and 90 years, residents in this city. To participate of the study the appraised he/she had to be a person with hypertension, to sign the term of illustrious free consent and to answer all the items of the questionnaire, being these: name; date of birth; sex; weight; height; blood pressure; education; color of the skin; how many times a week he/she practiced some physical activity; how long the session of physical activity lasted; if your activity was guided by somebody; which the types of physical activity that more practiced; in childhood, how many times a week he/she practiced some physical activity; it drinks coffee during the day; which the cause of your hypertension; it drinks water during the day; to yours to see, which the limitations of the person with hypertension. After the collection, the data were tabulated in a spreadsheet of SPSS version 10.0, where we applied the correlation test. The level of applied was of p <0,01. As the physical activity, we observed in the literature that the lack of physical activity, he/she can bring harmful consequences the life where we highlighted: diabetes, emergence of heart diseases, I increase of the glutting risk Dietz (1996). In developing of this study, it was evidenced that the hereditariness, the obesity and the sex healthy factors directly associated the Arterial Hypertension. The more he/she is practiced physical activity minor it is the BP. This improvement is still larger when the activity has a superior duration to thirty minutes diaries. Being practices like this her/it to regulate of physical activity he/she has to be a constant in the life of the person with hypertension. The people of brown color presented higher values of BP.