This work presents the results of the study diagnosis of the to prevail it hypertension arterial method in sampling home, of residents in the urban way, with 20 years or of lives acts, in the sixteen municipal districts included by 17th Regional Police station of Health of the State General office of Health / RS. It constituted in to partner cultural epidemic study of the exploratory and descriptive type. The sample and his dimension were certain with base in Cochran's methodology (1965), it municipal date, and the statistical to delineate was beacon by it date of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics of 1998, totaling 691 people. The date was collected through structured form, composed by closed and open subjects, contained in thematic blocks. The information was codified and the results presented in the form of table our illustrations. We verified that 79,70% of the participants of the study plows female, 65,50% plow in the acts group from 20 to 49 years of acts, 64,20% plow married, 61,40% possess the 1st incomplete degree, 53,60% have the main activity the household cry, 54,10% possess united family income, 73,5% receive up to three monthly minimum wages and, 49,30% possess three to four people living room of this income. To subjects regarding the health consummates 25,62% of the income, appearing in third place. In what he/she tells respect the subjects regarding hypertension, we verified that, approximately, 25,32% present elevation in the levels pressure, tends meaning level the interval from 22% to 28,6%. This die diverges of the studies accomplished in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, which point an estimate of the to prevail it arterial hypertension in 12% of the population, with 20 year-old acts or lives. In this study fire the attention that, besides the high percentile of people with hypertension, there the significant number of people that they possess risk factors associated development of hypertension, which you/they plows: alteration in the levels isolated pressure, in the index of corporal mass and in the circumference of the waist and they present risk behavior, totaling 14,47%. The explicit research that the subjects use drugs medicine the treatment of the hypertension, 41,70%. Besides, the percentile of 71,10% refers to use medicinal teas with the purpose of adapting the levels pressure; 65,30% of the interviewees inform to have family bearers of arterial hypertension, and the mother the person lives referred and 18,30% possess family in treatment hypertension living room attn the same house. These date appear close to the need of establishing the continuous educational process this population, making possible to know them the risk situations chronic diseases, particularly the hypertension, that they allow to promote them changes in the consumption patterns and in the lifestyle, favoring alone that there an adaptation of the levels pressure and/or minimizing the risk factors.