Abstract

ONISHI, Regina  and  REAL, Raúl. Frequency of pre-diseases in the National Hospital. Rev. virtual Soc. Parag. Med. Int. [online]. 2015, vol.2, n.1, pp.11-22. ISSN 2312-3893.  https://doi.org/10.18004/rvspmi/2312-3893/2015.02(01)11-022.

Introduction: Preventive Medicine emphasizes the detection of pre-diseases like pre-diabetes mellitus, pre-arterial hypertension, pre-obesity and pre-hyperuricemia with the purpose of intervening opportunely in the development of these diseases. Objectives: To investigate the prevalence of pre-diseases in adult patients of the Consultation Service of Internal Medicine of the National Hospital. Materials and methods: cross-sectional prospective observational descriptive study performed in adult men and women in the Consultation Service of Internal Medicine of the National Hospital from November 2012 to November 2013. Demographic, clinical and laboratory variables were measured. Results: Two hundred sixty seven subjects participated in the study; 64 were men with a mean age of 52±18 years old and 203 women with a mean age of 53±20 (p = 0.62). The following pre-diseases were detected: pre-diabetes mellitus 31%, pre-systolic arterial hypertension 32%, pre-diastolic arterial hypertension 46%, pre-obesity 36%, pre-hypercholesterolemia 36%, pre-hypertriglyceridemia 15% and pre-hyperuricemia 60%. Conclusion: The most frequent pre-diseases were pre-hyperuricemia and pre-diastolic arterial hypertension.

Keywords : pre-diseases; pre-diabetes mellitus; pre-arterial hypertension; pre-obesity, pre-hyperuricemia.

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