Journal of Hypertension: Open Access

Departamento: Fisiopatologia em Clínica Médica UNESP, Botucatu/São Paulo, Rua Alfredo Pena 277, Agudos, São Paulo, Brasil

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• Research Article   
  Impact of Physical Activity on Survival in Hypertensive and Diabetic Patients in the Interior of São Paulo
  Author(s): Grace Fernanda Severino Nunes*, Roberto Jorge da Silva Franco, Nathalia Valenço Nicolau, Monica Marcelli de Souza, Rozinéia dos Santos and Luis Cuadrado Martin
  
  Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) are a group of complications characterized by a long latency period, prolonged evolution time and irreversible lesions that lead to a variety of disabilities and death. Thus, this study aims to prospectively evaluate the association between physical activity level and mortality in hypertensive and diabetic patients from a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. A standardized longitudinal study was conducted with 200 patients evaluated in 2012 and reassessed in 2018. These hypertensive and diabetic patients answered specific questions about the level of physical activity and quality of life. Univariate analyzes for the significance test of associations were performed using the analysis of variance and the chi- square test for continuous and discrete variables, respectively. All significance tests were considered at p<0.05 and survival.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2167-1095.9.263

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