[Disability adjusted life years lost due to acute, chronic disability and premature death in arterial hypertension].

Objective: To determine the disability adjusted life years in arterial hypertension without diabetes mellitus.

Method: Disability adjusted life years was determined from chronic disability (chronic kidney disease, heart disease and cerebral vascular event), acute disability (hypertensive crisis and hypertensive emergency) and premature death. Age of diagnosis, age of the complication, prevalence of the complication, duration of the acute event, number of acute events, time lived with hypertension, age of death and life expectancy were identified.