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ABSTRACT

Background: Systemic hypertension affects approximately a trillion people on a worldwide basis; in Mexico, according to the National Survey of Health 2000, 15.1 million suffer of hypertension. The Official Mexican Norm NOM-030-SSA2-1999 considers arterial hypertension as a greater figure or equal to 140 mmHg of systolic and/or equal or higher than 90 mmHg of diastolic, classifying it in three phases. The JNC VII recently reclassifies in two phases and creates the term “pre-hypertension”.
Objective: To determine the prevalence of pre-hypertension and systemic arterial hypertension in nursing personnel at the Clinical Hospital ISSSTECALI Ensenada.
Material and methods: A transversal, observational study was carried out in 107 nurses and male nurses of ISSSTECALI Ensenada. Age, sex, systolic and diastolic blood pressure variables were measured, and hypertension and pre-hypertension was classified in agreement with JNC VII. The statistical analysis was made with the Stats v.1.1 and Excel 2003 programs.
Results: In our study, 87% of the participants were female and 13%, male. Measurement of the variables was carried out; finding that in the population studied the age of the participants was ranged from 21 to 55 years, with an average of 34.8. The prevalence of pre-hypertension was of the 39.2% and of systemic arterial hypertension of 9.34%. The average of age in hypertension was of 43.6 years and of 32.6 years in pre-hypertension.
Conclusions: This study shows prevalence in nursing personnel is smaller in comparison to average people for the state of Baja California. Nevertheless, is alarming the pre-hypertension found, therefore it is imperative to modify the lifestyles in our study group. It is necessary to make monitoring studies as well as establish measures of support along with preventive medicine in order to avoid the progression to hypertension and therefore to coronary artery disease in our health personnel.

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