This Tuesday, May 17, World Hypertension Day is commemorated, and Dr. Eduardo Valdebenito, a doctor in Primary Health Care of the Social Security Fund (CSS), explained that this is one of the main non-communicable diseases, but leading to high comorbidity and mortality.
He explained that this type of disease is caused by lifestyle, social, environmental, genetic and physiological factors, not by contagion.
The doctor said that there may be a genetic factor in which one can suffer from hypertension, however the non-modifiable factors such as age, genes and the congenital factor group, while those of behavior that can be modified, have greater relevance in the population such as tobacco use, physical inactivity, harmful use of alcohol, poor nutrition, inadequate diets, air pollution, etc.
Valdebenito indicated that the main consequences after hypertension is detected is cardiocerebrovascular disease, of which the best known and leads to mortality is cerebral infarction and heart attacks.
