centers of health of the community of Madrid carried out controls to a million of hypertensive
flowers visited a hypertension consultation at the Centre of health Goya
– enhance preventive habits and 92% of the people of Madrid is measured the voltage regularly
-health recalls that from the age of 40 should perform the measurement of blood pressure
Madrid, may 2012.- healthcare, Patricia Flores, Vice-Counsellor visited a consultation of high pressure in the center of health Goya, accompanied by the director-general of primary care, Antonio Alemany, to learn about the treatment of this disease at the health centers that perform control and monitoring 925.105 hypertensive patients from the community of Madrid, half of them over the age of 65. Precisely, on Thursday celebrates World Day of hypertension, chronic disease that most affects the population. flowers recalled that after 40 years, health professionals recommend that in the health center periodic measurements of blood pressurea preventive measure which has improved in recent years. In fact, 92% of the people of Madrid from 18 to 40 years ensures completion of this test, and after that age, the figure rises to 94.3%, according to the latest epidemiological data. Hypertension is a common health problem very, which increases with age. 15% Of the people of Madrid suffers from high blood pressure high, according to the report of the monitoring system, factors of risk associated to communicable diseases (SIVFRENT). More than half of these people take medication.
Health centres carry out various actions to prevent and control the hypertensive patient. Among these is the service of care to adult patients with hypertension who attends to 925.105 people, which means one 56,94% increase compared to 2002. This service, aimed at older than 14 years old diagnosed hypertension includes semi-annual on measurement of strain reviews, review of pharmacological treatment and care plan. In addition, it is completed with regular testing on blood sugar, control weight, heart examination and electrocardiogram (every five years). In addition to this service, health professionals perform diagnostic programs of hypertension with scans every 5 years, in case of under 40 years of age, and every two years if it is above that age. Also, the child population according to periods which marks service of early detection of problems of children. Hypertension is one of the major risk factors for cardiovascular diseases: ischemic heart disease, heart failure, stroke, or complications in the kidneys and view disease.
Although the causes of hypertension are not clear in most of the cases, the adoption of healthy lifestyles is the best preventive measure. Health professionals remind the need of physical exercise, maintain a proper weight, eat a healthy diet, and reduce the salt in the diet, as well as limit the consumption of alcoholic beverages and non smoking.
Strategy of the chronic
The community of Madrid has launched the strategy of care to the chronic patient in order to rearrange the attention of health services more efficiently, depending on the age of the patient, his illness or severity level, and involving the patient in the care of his pathology.
It should be remembered that the increase in the life expectancy, in Madrid, with 83.4 years, joined the development of health systems, has caused most of the deaths are due to chronic diseases and the progressive ageing of the population affected by problems of health
