Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education
Open Access

Review Article

Self-reported Hydration in Diabetic and Hypertensive Elderly

¹General Surgery Residency Program, Getulio Vargas Hospital, Health Secretary of the State of Piaui, Teresina, Piauí, Brazil

²Residency Program, Institute of Medical Assistance to the State Civil Servants of the State of Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

³Department of Community Health, FACID DEVRY University Center, Teresina, Piauí, Brazil

⁴Department of Statistics, UNINOVAFAPI University Center, Teresina, Piauí, Brazil

⁵Department of Community Health, UNINOVAFAPI University Center, Teresina, Piauí, Brazil

⁶Medical Sciences College, State University of Piauí (Universidade Estadual do Piauí), Teresina, Piauí, Brazil

*Corresponding Author:

Lucielma Salmito Soares Pinto, DDS, PhD
Faculdade de Ciências Médicas-Universidade Estadual do Piauí Rua Olavo Bilac
2335-Centro Teresina-PI CEP 64001-280, Brazil
Tel: +558632216658
Fax: +558632216658
E-mail: lucielma@yahoo.com.br

Received date: July 31, 2017; Accepted date: August 04, 2017; Published date: August 07, 2017

Citation: Pinto ESS, Castro CCB, Campos IDS, Teles JBM , Mendes CMM, et al. (2017) Self-reported Hydration in Diabetic and Hypertensive Elderly. J Community Med Health Educ 7:544. doi:10.4172/2161-0711.1000544

Copyright: © 2017 Pinto ESS, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Background: Although the importance of the hydration for health of diabetic and hypertensive elderly have been extensively exposed, there is little information about the self-reported hydration among this group. This study attempts to fill this gap in the literature by studying the self-reported hydration among elderly in Brazil.

Methodology: It was conducted a cross-sectional study through interviews with 405 elderly attended at a Brazilian primary care for arterial hypertension and/or mellitus diabetes. The variables addressed were: gender, age in years, presence of caregivers in doctor visits, prevalence of chronic diseases and questions for the hydration assessment. Association Pearson’s chi-square test and a significance level of 5% were adopted.

Results: The elderly that described feel thirst regularly (p=0.00), an appropriated water intake idea (p=0.00) and younger age (p=0.04), reported a higher water intake. The presence of the caregiver and older age (p=0.03); and older age assisted by a caregiver and drinking at least 6 glasses of water/day (p=0.02) were also associated.

Conclusions: Thirst, appropriate intake idea, younger age and a caregiver for the older age were associated with the report of higher intake of water. Several factors may be associated with water intake and should be considered when analyzing strategies for hydration of the elderly.

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