DEMYSTIFYING HYPERTENSION

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.1595182510047

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  This document encompasses an action that seeks to integrate the medical students of the Pequeno Príncipe College with the community of the city of Curitiba, which makes use of the Unified Health System (SUS) through the primary care that takes place in the Basic Health Units (UBS). As was seen during the visit to the Osternack Health Unit, systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) caught the students' attention due to the high number of cases of the disease, which is chronic, silent, multifactorial and can trigger various complications that can lead to death. To this end, data was collected during field inspections and studied together with the teacher and health workers, leading us to understand the need to promote awareness and care for hypertensive patients, with a view to improving treatment and greater adherence to taking continuous blood pressure control medication, by giving a talk to UBS health professionals and community health agents, to inform them of the new guidelines on hypertension and provide training to be used when monitoring these patients in their homes, along with handing out stickers made by the group. The patches were designed to make it easier for patients to take their medication at the right times and with consistency, thus reducing symptoms and the risk of the disease progressing and improving the quality of life of people with hypertension.