Interação clínica entre moléstia de Chagas e hipertensão arterial primária em um serviço de referência ambulatorial / Clinical relationship between Chagas' disease and primary arterial hypertension at an outpatient referral service
Arq. bras. cardiol
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70(6): 431-434, Jun. 1998.
Article
in Portuguese
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE: To evaluate the clinical relationship between Chagas' disease and primary arterial hypertension. METHODS: The study involved 878 chronic chagasic outpatients followed by the Chagas' Disease Study Group of the University Hospital (Unicamp), over a 15-year period. Initially, the age, gender, race, clinical form of Chagas' disease and the presence of hypertension were noted for each patient. Subsequently, the data for matched hypertensive and normotensive chagasic patients were compared. RESULTS: Of the chagasic patients 37were hypertensive, of those, 65had some form of heart disease compared to 49in the normotensive group. Of those patients with Chagas' disease and arterial hypertension, 41were blacks and 35were caucasians. Fifty percent of the hypertensive chagasic patients were over 45 years old compared to only 29of the non-hypertensive patients. CONCLUSION: Most of the hypertensive chagasic patients were 45 or more years old and showed some degree of heart failure compared to the normotensive group.
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Main subject:
Chagas Disease
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Hypertension
Type of study:
Etiology study
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
Portuguese
Journal:
Arq. bras. cardiol
Journal subject:
Cardiology
Year:
1998
Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Brazil
Institution/Affiliation country:
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)/BR
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