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Artigo Científico Acesso embargado Prevalência de hipertensão arterial sistêmica em idosos internados em um hospital escola de Tubarão/SC, no ano de 2015(2020) Alves, Ruzanowsky GabrielaObjective: to evaluate the prevalence of systemic arterial hypertension (SAH) among the elderly admitted to a University Hospital in Tubarão/SC, in 2015. Methods: cross-sectional study with secondary data. It used probabilistic and representative sampling of those evaluated in the period; the methodology for selecting medical records was systematic. All clinical and sociodemographic variables were collected from medical records. Stata 16.1 was used for the analyzes. Results: there was 70.21% of SAH among the 1,121 records assessed. This frequency was statistically higher among older elderly (70.21%), hospitalized by SUS (73.70%), with a longer hospital stay (80.68%), with more than one hospital stay (77.24%), diabetics (95.06%), with cardiovascular diseases (92.97%) and with other chronic non-communicable diseases (82.39%). Conclusion: there was a high prevalence of SAH and comorbidities among the elderly. This demonstrates the importance of encouraging personal education strategies to minimize the risk of death or loss of quality of life.