Ingestão dietética e excreção urinária de 24 horas de sódio e potássio e sua associação com fatores de risco cardiovascular em hipertensos do município de Maceió-AL

Abstract

Systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) is a chronic disease of high prevalence, being very common, the disorders resulting from uncontrolled blood pressure, and its clinical outcomes are most severe. The damages resulting from complications of AH can be justified or explained by the presence of non-modifiable risk factors (age, sex, heredity) and modifiable (diet, smoking, physical inactivity, obesity, dyslipidemia, stress), thus it is essential to maintaining eating habits and healthy lifestyle. Considering the role that electrolytes, sodium and potassium has on blood pressure and challenge in quantifying the daily intake by dietary recall method, this study proposes to study and quantify the dietary intake of Na and K also by urinary excretion of 24 and its association with cardiovascular risk factors (socio-economic profile, lipid profile, fasting glucose, triglycerides, cholesterol) in patients with systemic arterial hypertension (SAH).