Objective:

To determine if hypertension is associated with osteoporosis in female patients of Seguro Social de Salud (EsSalud) Hospital I in Trujillo.

Materials and methods:

An observational, analytical and cross-sectional study, which included 351 female patients treated in the Internal Medicine Unit of EsSalud Hospital I Florencia de Mora, Trujillo, from 2016 to 2019. According to the screening criteria, patients were divided into two groups-175 with hypertension and 176 without hypertension-to determine the number of patients with osteoporosis. The data was analyzed with Pearson’s chi-square test using IBM SPSS Statistics V26 to perform the statistical analysis and present the results in graphs and tables in Microsoft Excel Windows 10.

Results:

It was found that the prevalence of osteoporosis with hypertension accounted for 31.4 %, while that of osteoporosis without hypertension was 1.7 %. This shows that the prevalence of osteoporosis in women with hypertension is statistically significant (p < 0.001) with respect to women without hypertension. Regarding the analysis of the intervening variables, age (p < 0.001), cholesterol (p < 0.001) and coffee (p < 0.001) were statistically significant. Variables such as type 2 diabetes mellitus, sex, obesity, anemia, triglycerides and smoking were not statistically significant.

Conclusions:

Hypertension is associated with osteoporosis as well as with the intervening variables age, cholesterol and coffee, as they were statistically significant.

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