Objective:

To determine the disability adjusted life years in arterial hypertension without diabetes mellitus.

Method:

Disability adjusted life years was determined from chronic disability (chronic kidney disease, heart disease and cerebral vascular event), acute disability (hypertensive crisis and hypertensive emergency) and premature death. Age of diagnosis, age of the complication, prevalence of the complication, duration of the acute event, number of acute events, time lived with hypertension, age of death and life expectancy were identified. In all cases a 3% discount rate was applied, the estimate was made per 100,000.

Results:

When the total of women was used as a reference, the disability adjusted life years in women is 198,498.28. In men, using the total number of men as a reference, the value is 204,232.13. If the referent is the total population, in women the disability adjusted life years is 102,028.11 and in men 99,256.98.

Conclusions:

The disability adjusted life years in arterial hypertension without diabetes is different for men and women; the topic has many edges that must be studied.

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