La Residencia Médica en España, llevado a cabo el 25 de junio del 2024

Se evaluó si existe asociación entre conocimientos sobre hipertensión y adherencia al tratamiento, en pacientes hipertensos del Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins de Lima, Perú.

Introduction: Knowing about arterial hypertension could favor adherence to treatment for better control of blood pressure. Objective: To evaluate the association between hypertension awareness and adherence to treatment in hypertensive patients at Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins in Lima, Perú. Materials and methods: An analytical cross-sectional study was performed, including a convenience sampling of 340 hypertensive patients from cardiology clinics, during the period May-August 2015. The main variable was awareness of hypertension, which was measured using the hypertension awareness questionnaire (CSH, by its acronym in Spanish); the response variable obtained corresponds to the degree of adherence to the treatment, which was measured through the Martin-Bayarre-Grau (MBG) questionnaire. The Poisson regression was used to calculate prevalence ratios (PR) with 95% confidenc...

Introducción: Conocer sobre hipertensión arterial podría tener efecto beneficioso en la adherencia al tratamiento para un mejor control de presión arterial. Objetivo: Evaluar si existe asociación entre conocimientos sobre hipertensión y adherencia al tratamiento en pacientes hipertensos del Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins. Métodos: Se realizó un estudio transversal analítico. El muestreo por conveniencia incluyó 340 pacientes hipertensos de consultorios de Cardiología del periodo Mayo-Agosto 2015. La variable principal de exposición fue grado de conocimientos de hipertensión medida con el Cuestionario de conocimientos sobre la hipertensión y la variable respuesta fue grado de adherencia al tratamiento medida con el cuestionario Martin-Bayarre-Grau. Se utilizó Regresión de Poisson para calcular Razones de Prevalencias con intervalos de confianza del 95% y valo...

Background: Public transport in big cities like Lima may favor the spread of air-borne diseases due to overcrowding, poor ventilation and a prolonged stay in confined spaces. Material and methods: We performed a cross-sectional study in 592 students from a private university in Lima to evaluate the relationship between the frequent use of public transport and the presence of influenza-like illness (ILI). Self-report of ILI was defined as fever plus cough or sore throat in last two weeks, most used type of transport to go to university. OR crude and adjusted were calculated used simple and multiple logistic regression. Results: 12.0% (71/592) had ILI in the past two weeks. Use of public transport (OR = 3.6; 95% CI 1.2 to 10.2) and have contact with someone with ILI at home (OR = 1.8; 95% CI 1.1 to 3.1) were found associated in multiple logistic regression model. No association with age, v...