Arterial hypertension in the worsening clinical condition of dengue
International Journal of Development Research
Arterial hypertension in the worsening clinical condition of dengue
Received 26th September, 2017; Received in revised form 19th October, 2017; Accepted 09th November, 2017; Published online 30th December, 2017
Copyright ©2017, Izilyanne Hoscher Romanholi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The purpose of the manuscript was to identify the presence of comorbidities that enhances the worsening of dengue disease. It is a case-control study, carried out in the city of Campo Grande, Brazil. Subjects were matched by gender, age and place of residence, using four controls for each case. A hundred and two subjects with dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) were included in the case group, and 408 subjects with a diagnosis of dengue fever were selected as the control group. The results of the present study suggest that people with abdominal pain or suffering from systemic arterial hypertension are more likely to develop dengue hemorrhagic fever. In conclusion, when people suffering from systemic arterial hypertension present with suspected dengue, they should be stratified into the group most likely to develop severe forms of the disease.
