Abstract
Arterial hypertension is associated with a high prevalence of vascular alterations. The use of noninvasive procedures to assess peripheral arterial diseases in the ranking of cardiovascular risks has been increasingly valued in clinical practice and should be adopted in nursing. To identify the cardiovascular risk of hypertensive and normotensive individuals through the use of different noninvasive procedures to assess the vascular function and integrity: ankle-brachial index, pulse pressure, and delta brachial-brachial and delta ankle-brachial indexes. Quantitative, descriptive, and cross-sectional study undertaken at a health service in a Brazilian city. The research variables were age, sex, blood pressure, abdominal circumference, body mass index, ankle-brachial index, pulse pressure, and delta brachial-brachial and delta ankle-brachial indexes. Fifty-four (43.1%) normotensive and 69 (56.9%) hypertensive individuals participated in the study. Alterations were identified in ankle-brachial index, corresponding to mild and moderate arterial obstruction, among hypertensive individuals only (7.2%), with higher pulse pressure indices (P < 0.0001). The assessment of the correlation between the ankle-brachial index and pulse pressur...Continue Reading
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