Caracterización clínica del hipotiroidismo en pacientes geriátricos Policlínico Pedro Fonseca. La Lisa, 2011

antecedents: there has been an increasing rate of the life hope in our country so no transmissible chronic diseases have been increasing their frequency in geriatric ages. objectives: identify the main clinical manifestations and chronic diseases associated in a cohort of hypothyroidism geriatric patients who attended the internal medicine outpatient consulting room at "pedro fonseca" polyclinic during 2011. patients and methods: it was made a descriptive, retrospective and transversal study in geriatric patients who attended the internal medicine outpatient consulting room since january to december, 2011. data of the patients were taken from the outpatient attendance daily register and tranferred to a previous designed model. the sample included 972 geriatric patients and the following variables were studied: age, gender, main clinic manifestations and associated chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, heart diseases, lipid disorders, obesity, chronic obstruction lung diseases and osteoarthritis. the frequency by gender (expressed in percents) of all variables was calculated by using an excel program. results: there is a reducing rate of hypothyroidism associated to age and female sex as well as weakness, sleeping disorders, joins pain and depress like main symptoms. lipid disorder and osteoarthritis were the most common chronic diseases associated to hypothyroidism in our studied cohort. conclusions: lipid disorders and osteoarthritis were the chronic diseases more associated to hypothyroidism. weakness and sleeping disorders were the most relevant manifestations in the sample studied.