Arterial hypertension: sociodemographic profile and comorbidities of patients from northwest Paraná State, Southern Brazil = Hipertens o arterial: perfil sociodemográfico e comorbidades de pacientes da regi o Noroeste do Paraná, Sul do Brasil

The systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) currently a major public health problem, presents high medical and socioeconomic costs, and occurs concurrently with other diseases, of infectious origin or not. This study aimed to describe the sociodemographic profile of hypertensive patients with or without co-morbidities assisted in a health reference centre in a municipality of the northwest of the Paraná State, Southern Brazil. We gathered data from 250 medical records, concerning age, gender, race, marital status, educational level, professional duties, place of origin, reasons for seeking the services, occurrences of co-morbidities, and duration of systemic arterial hypertension. SAH occurred more often in the age group of 60-69 years old. The female gender was significantly different from the male. We observed the predominance of married (60.0%), Caucasian (76.0%), with fundamental level of education (54.4%), housewife (39.6%), living in neighborhood towns (58.0%), born in other regions than the Southern Brazil and have seek the service mainly for reasons not related to hypertension (p < 0.05). Cardiopathy of diverse etiology, Diabetes mellitus, Chagas disease and acute myocardial heart attack were identified in 98 patients (39.2%). Long-standing SAH was observed on 65.2% of the patients. The knowledge of the profile of the hypertensives, and principal associated diseases allows directing health actions in order to optimize resources, and make effective control of blood pressure and co-morbidities, including alternative intervention approaches to increase life expectation of patients. A hipertens o arterial sistêmica (HAS), atualmente um dos principais problemas de saúde pública, apresenta custos médicos e socioecon micos elevados e ocorre concomitantemente com outras doen as, de origem infecciosa ou n o. Este trabalho teve como objetivo descrever o perfil sociodemográfico e comorbidades de pacientes hipertensos atendidos em um centro de referência em saúde em município da regi o Noroeste do Paraná, Sul do Brasil. De 250 prontuários foram coletados dados referentes à idade, sexo, ra a, estado civil, escolaridade, atividade profissional, procedência, naturalidade, motivo da procura pelo servi o, ocorrência de comorbidades e tempo da HAS.A HAS teve maior frequência na faixa etária de 60-69 anos. O gênero feminino foi significativamente diferente do masculino. Foram predominantes os casados (60,0%), da ra a branca (76,0%), com Ensino Fundamental (54,4%), profiss o do lar (39,6%), residentes em municípios vizinhos ao do estudo (58,0%), naturais de outras reg