Profile of hospitalization in the health unic system in the municipality of São Paulo for acute myocardial infarction in the year 2021

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: Despite significant scientific advances and public prevention policies, acute myocardial infarction corresponds to a high rate of hospitalizations and morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVE: To analyze and describe the profile of patients who are hospitalized in the city of São Paulo for Acute Myocardial Infarction in the year 2021. METHODOLOGY: It consists of a descriptive, retrospective, longitudinal epidemiological study, based on the analysis of a secondary source of data, with the aim of the studies being hospital admissions in the Unified Health System of the city of São Paulo, in the year 2021, for causes related to diseases. hypertensive As inclusion criteria, all hospital admissions were selected through the Hospital Information System (SIH), through DATASUS. The period studied was the year 2021. The morbidities were separated and selected according to the main hospitalization diagnosis and classified according to the International Disease Code 10 (ICD10), the following being selected I10 -Essential hypertension, I11 - Hypertensive heart disease , I12 - Hypertensive kidney disease, I13 - Hypertensive heart and kidney disease, I15 - Secondary hypertension. Gender, race/color and age group were also taken into account. RESULTS: During the study period, 2219 hospitalizations were performed for hypertensive diseases, of which 49.2% were male and 50.8% female. Among the target audience of the study, when considering race/color, 35.8% of patients consider themselves white, 8% black, 29.5% brown and 0.2% yellow. 26.5% of the registered admissions had no description of race/color. Regarding the age groups studied, there is a gradual increase in the number of hospitalizations as the observed age group also increases, with the group of patients over 80 years of age having the highest number of hospitalizations, corresponding to 14% of all the hospitalizations. CONCLUSION: Hospitalizations in the city of São Paulo due to hypertensive syndromes were slightly higher in males, most of whom were white and aged over 80 years.