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Revista Cubana de Investigaciones Biomédicas
On-line version ISSN 1561-3011
Abstract
DIAZ PERERA FERNANDEZ, Georgia; ALEMANY DIAZ-PERERA, Claudia and ALEMANY PEREZ, Eduardo. Risk factors for atherosclerosis in a population attended by four medical offices. Rev Cubana Invest Bioméd [online]. 2021, vol.40, n.4 Epub Mar 25, 2022. ISSN 1561-3011.
Introduction:
Atherosclerosis is a complex disease, as old as man, whom it accompanies from conception to death.
Objective:
To describe the behavior of risk factors for atherosclerosis.
Method:
A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out during the period 2016 to 2019.
Results:
The predominant risk factors were the diagnosis of hypertension, 348 for 44.9 % and the diagnosis of dyslipidemia over one year in 247 for 89.2 %. hypertension has the highest risk associated with overweight / obesity, sedentary lifestyle, altered waist circumference, altered waist-to-height index, family history of hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and cardiovascular disease. Dyslipidemia has the highest risk associated with overweight / obesity, altered waist circumference, altered waist-height index, hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, a family history of dyslipidemia and with peripheral arterial and chronic kidney disease.
Conclusions:
The diagnosis of hypertension and the diagnosis of dyslipidemia of more than one year predominated. Hypertension and dyslipidemia presented a high risk associated with most of the risk factors and diseases resulting from atherosclerosis studied.
Keywords : risk factors; atherosclerosis; primary health attention.