2024-07-152024-07-152023-12-15MORAES, Ana Léia; GBETIE, Cidna Placidia Medessè. Hipertensão arterial nas populações quilombolas do Brasil: uma revisão sistemática da literatura. Orientador: Hilton Pereira da Silva; Coorientadora: Izaura Maria Vieira Cayres Vallinoto. 2023. 35 f. Trabalho de Curso (Bacharelado em Medicina) - Faculdade de Medicina, Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, 2023. Disponível em: https://bdm.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/prefix/7046. Acesso em: .https://bdm.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/prefix/7046Introduction: Quilombola communities possess an inestimable cultural and historical wealth, they also face a series of health challenges that are rooted in persistent socioeconomic, historical, and racial inequalities. Among the challenges is Systemic Arterial Hypertension (SAH), a chronic health condition, limited access to quality health services, lack of basic sanitation, poverty and discrimination, as well as the scarcity of epidemiological studies that characterize the health situation of these populations, allowing the design for the implementation and monitoring of actions and policies aimed at improving their living and health conditions. Objective: To conduct a systematic review in order to investigate risk factors and barriers to the diagnosis, treatment and control of hypertension in these communities. Methods: Systematic search in Google Scholar, PubMed, Virtual Health Library, Scientific Electronic Library Online SCIELO, Caderno de Saúde Pública CSP, Elsevier Science Direct and Biblioteca Brasileira de Teses e Dissertações BDTD using the combinations of the descriptors: ''Hypertension'' and ''Quilombolas''. The data were extracted and organized for analysis. Results/Discussion: A total of 348 articles were selected in the period 2013-2023 and, according to the studies surveyed, only 77 had any direct relationship with the present review. Thus, it was possible to perceive that SAH has a high prevalence in Afro Brazilians and is a consequence of a historical process that has its genesis in aggravating factors constructed in the slave period (torture, forced labor, misery, spiritual anguish, anxiety and fear). Alcohol, smoking, unbalanced diet, stress and other factors are responsible for increasing the risks for the development of SAH. Conclusion: This systematic review revealed the high prevalence of arterial hypertension in quilombolas and demonstrated that little is known about the true risk factors for the development of the disease in these populations. Thus, the high prevalence of arterial hypertension found reinforces the need for a broad program of promotion and access to health services for early diagnosis, as well as guidance for the appropriate management of this condition.Acesso AbertoHipertensão arterialQuilombolasPolíticas públicasArterial hypertensionPublic policiesCNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::MEDICINATrabalho de Curso - Graduação - Monografia