Sleep quality in patients with Hypertension in a Peruvian hospital at 3400 meters above sea level, 2017

• Autores: Sucasaca-Rodríguez, Cristian, Ccorahua-Rios, Maycol Suker, Rodriguez-Ttupa, Lizeth Carla, Atamari-Anahui, Noé, Pereira-Victorio, César Johan
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2020
• Institución: Universidad Continental
• Repositorio: CONTINENTAL-Institucional
• Lenguaje: inglés
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.continental.edu.pe:20.500.12394/10024
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12394/10024
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Hipertensión; Privación de sueño; Higiene del sueño; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#1.02.02

Introduction: Hypertension is a public health problem; sleep disturbances are conditions that predispose to hypertension and aggravate the quality of life of hypertensive patients. Objectives: To describe the characteristics of sleep quality in patients with hypertension in a national hospital in the city of Cusco-Peru, at 3400 meters above sea level (msnm). Material and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out with data of the patients. Results: A total of 272 hypertensive patients were studied. The average age was 65 years and the average time of the disease was 8 years. The results show that 75% of the patients had poor sleep quality and most of the patients had a sleep duration between 6 and 7 hours. All the patients presented some sleep disturbance and 94.1% did not take any medication to sleep.