Background:

comprehensive care for children and adolescents with cardiovascular risk factors is a challenge for the professional performance of pediatricians in primary health care.

Objective:

to systematize the theoretical references that support the professional performance of pediatricians in primary health care for the care of cardiovascular risk factors.

Methods:

a literature review was performed from January 2020 to July 2022. Pubmed, SciELO and Google Scholar databases were used, through the combination of OR, AND and NOT operators; the keywords used were cardiovascular diseases, professional performance, risk factors, primary health care and pediatrician. Articles and web pages in Spanish and English referring to the subject of the study were evaluated through the title.

Development:

based on the systematization of several authors, theoretical approaches were adopted in relation to the professional performance of the pediatrician in primary health care for the attention to cardiovascular risk factors, regularities were identified in different areas of knowledge and the definition of the professional performance of the pediatrician in primary health care for the attention to cardiovascular risk factors was proposed in an operational manner.

Conclusions:

the systematization made it possible to establish an approach to the theoretical references that support the subject and to deepen in the professional performance of the pediatrician for the prevention of cardiovascular risk factors in children.

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