Global Journal of Medical Research, F: Diseases, Volume 23 Issue 2

Inflammatory Markers and Risk Factors in Hypertensive Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study Summary- Objective: To observe risk factors that hypertensive patients present in the outpatient segment from the nursing perspective care. Method: Cross-sectional study where essential hypertensives of legal age belonging to the hypertension program of a municipality in Bahia were included. Those with cancer, hepatitis, HIV, lupus, arthritis, pregnant women, and chronic corticosteroid users were excluded. Collected patient demographic information and cardiovascular risk factors. Results: Included 61 patients with a mean age of 58±11, 56% women. A relationship was established between age/glucose; IL6/LDL; vitamin D/ferritin; waist circumference/BMI; BMI/CRP; smoking, age, blood pressure, LDL, and neutrophil/ lymphocyte ratio. The statistical analysis evaluated predictive variables for developing hypertension and high cardiovascular risk. In the cardiovascular risk stratification, 09 patients had low chance; one was intermediate, 37 high risk, and 02 very high risk. Keywords: cardiovascular risk; risk factors; arterial hypertension. GJMR-F Classification: DDC Code: 616.132 LCC Code: RC685.H8 InflammatoryMarkersandRiskFactorsinHypertensivePatientsACrossSectionalStudy Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: By Bettanin, Francelise Susan Mihara, Bacci, Marcelo Rodrigues & Fonseca, Fernando Luiz Affonso © 2023. Bettanin, Francelise Susan Mihara, Bacci, Marcelo Rodrigues & Fonseca, Fernando Luiz Affonso. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Global Journal of Medical Research: F Diseases Volume 23 Issue 2 Version 1.0 Year 2023 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-4618 & Print ISSN: 0975-5888