Caracterización sociocultural y clinicoepidemiológica de pacientes angolanos con hipertensión arterial / Social, cultural, clinical and epidemiological characterization of Angolan patients with hypertension

Se realizó un estudio descriptivo y transversal de 85 pacientes con hipertensión arterial, pertenecientes a la barriada de Caop del municipio angolano de Viana, Luanda, desde abril hasta agosto de 2012, a fin de caracterizarles desde los puntos de vista sociocultural y clinicoepidemiológico. En la casuística predominaron los grupos etarios de 39-48 y 49-58 años (29,4 %, respectivamente), así como el sexo femenino (80,0 %). Existió el desempleo y la inmigración entre los moradores, los cuales adoptaron estilos de vida, que en algunos casos pudieron atentar contra el buen pronóstico de la enfermedad, entre los cuales figuraron: ingesta excesiva de sal, ausencia de ejercicios físicos y tensiones psicoemocionales mantenidas; sin embargo, el hábito de fumar y el consumo de alcohol no constituyeron factores de riesgo para el desarrollo de esta afección. Se recomendó evaluar el grado de asociación entre las condiciones de riesgo identificadas y la hipertensión arterial.

A descriptive and cross sectional study of 85 patients with hypertension, belonging to Caop neighbourhood of the Angolan municipality of Viana, Luanda, was carried out from April to August, 2012, in order to characterize them from the social, cultural clinical and epidemiological points of view. The age groups 39-48 and 49-58 years (29.4%, respectively), as well as the female sex (80.0%) prevailed in the case material. There was unemployment and the immigration among the residents, who adopted lifestyles which could attempt against the good prognosis of the disease in some cases, among which there were: excessive intake of salt, absence of physical exercises and sustained psychoemocional tensions; however, the smoking habit and the alcohol consumption didn't constitute risk factors for the development of this disorder. It was recommended to evaluate the association grade between the identified risky conditions and hypertension.

Corpo somático e psiquismo na psicanálise: uma relação de tensionalidade

Apresenta-se a hipótese de que a condição humana, entendida psicanaliticamente como processo de constituição psicossexual, encontraria como dinâmica própria aos processos de subjetivação o que denominamos "tensionalidade somatopsíquica". A pulsão, enquanto conceito fronteiriço entre as dimensões somática e psíquica, é o eixo que permite superar a lógica dicotômica entre estes dois termos, que não podem ser concebidos como entes autônomos e independentes, mas em sua articulação-disjunção.

Somatic body and psychic on Psychoanalysis: a matter of tension. On this paper we present the hypothesis that the human condition, understood by psychoanalysis as the process of psychosexual constitution, would find what we designate 'somatic-psychic tension' as the dynamic particular to the process of subjectivity. The notion of sexual drive, as a borderline term between the somatic and the psychic dimensions, is the axis which allows us to surpass the dualistic logic between soma and psyche, two terms that can't be understood as independent entities, but only in their simultaneous articulation-disjunction.