Prevalencia de hipertensión arterial en diagnósticos de egreso del Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, México 2008.

Introduction: Hypertension is a chronic disease commonly increased and is associated with one of every five deaths in Mexico, hence the need to continue strengthening the body of knowledge of this disease. This paper examines the prevalence of hospital discharge diagnoses of this disease. Objective: Describe the behavior of hypertension in hospital discharge diagnoses of for ten years at the National Institute of Cardiology Ignacio Chavez. Methodology: A descriptive study was conducted, with a sub sample of the database of hospital Artemisa medigraphic en linea