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INTRODUCTION: SystemicArterial Hypertension (SAH) is a chronic pathology with high prevalence in Brazil and constitutes one of the main public health problems. This way, Food and Nutrition Education is part of an important line to promote healthy eating habits, being an indispensable tactic included in public policies in food and nutrition. OBJECTIVES: to identify the importance of food and nutrition education for the control of arterial hypertension. METHODS: a literature review was carried out in the LILACS, BVS and SciELO databases from 2008 to 2021, using the descriptors "Arterial Hypertension" and "Diet Hypertension", with the Boolean operator AND between them. 47 articles were found, according to the inclusion criterion abstracts available in full, published in Portuguese, English or Spanish, carried out in human beings, which addressed themes related to hypertension, food and nutrition education. Studies in which the approach to the theme was not effective were obliterated, thus only 25 articles were selected for the review. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: a study showed that among the nutritional factors that are associated with the high prevalence of SAH are the high consumption of alcohol, sodium and excess weight. Being associated with the consumption of potassium, calcium and magnesium, which would attenuate the progressive increase in blood pressure levels with age. Another analysis pointed out, as one of the results of the educational action, a growing and complex degree of learning, contributing to the construction of the participants' knowledge, as well as stimulating social interaction as something important for the prevention of diseases. FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: in view of what was explained, it was possible to observe that therapeutic intervention and control of SAH requires changes in behavior aimed

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A Hipertensão Arterial Sistêmica (HAS) é conceituada como um estado clínico multifatorial em que os indivíduos têm uma elevação sustentada de maior ou igual a 140 mmHg (Pressão Arterial Sistólica-PAS) e a 90mmHg (Pressão Arterial Diastólica-PAD), atingindo cerca de 36 milhões de indivíduos adultos no Brasil, em que 60% são idosos. A Sociedade Brasileira de Hipertensão em 2018 relatou que cerca de 77% das pessoas com o primeiro episódio de Acidente Vascular Encefálico (AVE) têm HAS, além do alto risco de doenças cardiovasculares. Diante das comuns possibilidades de complicações, surge, no atual modelo do Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS), a necessidade de não somente diagnosticar e rastrear os hipertensos, como também de acompanhá-los individual e cuidadosamente, por meio de um itinerário, que é a Linha de Cuidado (LC)