摘要：Arterial hypertension reduces quality of life.To assess the influence of sociodemographic and clinical variables on the quality of life of hypertensive patients.This is a cross section study with 431 hypertensive patients enrolled in health care services in central Portugal.56.84% of the patients are female,aged between 30 and 95 years.The patients have isolated systolic hypertension blood pressure as measured recently and measured 3 months ago (41.8% and 34.8%,respectively).There is a relationship between gender,age,education,marital status,professional situation,cohabitation,monthly income and waist circumference and quality of life.And a positive correlation between blood pressure and the mental state dimension,as well as between the body mass index and somatic manifestations in the quality of life dimension.
