Justification:

This study pretends to obtain an answer about the relationship between functionality and left ventricular hipertrophy, in the elderly patients with high blood pressure, the degree of left ventricular hipertrophy was obtain by echocardiogram study.

Materials and methods:

Descriptive and observational study. Data from patients with high blood pressure, who had an echocardiogram study from July thru December 2011 in the cardiology services, and then had an integral geriatric evaluation in the National Hospital of Geriatrics and Gerontology.

Results:

Data obtained in this study shows a poblation main conformed by women on the eight decade, who had more than ten year of the diagnosis of high blood pressure, with mild left ventricular hipertrophy, in other disseases asotiated were type 2 diabetes, congestive heart failure, and wait problems.

The functional state was described, on the basic daily activities with Barthel scale, also on the instrumental activities with Lawton scale, and the relation with left ventricular hypertrophy as other morbilities.

Conclusion:

The patients of this study maintained good levels of independence on basic daily activities, but the patients who had moderate left ventricular hypertrophy were associated with partial dependence of the instrumental activities of daily living as the Lawton scale showed.

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