Abstract

RODRIGUEZ BATISTA, René et al. Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in patients presenting with chronic renal disease. Rev Cub Med Mil [online]. 2010, vol.39, n.1. ISSN 0138-6557.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence of cardiovascular risk modifiable factors present in patients with 3, 4 and 5 stages. METHODS: A cross-sectional and analytical study was conducted in 210 patients diagnosed with above mentioned stages of chronic renal disease. Quantitative variable were reported as average and SD and the categorical ones as absolutes numbers and percentages. The clinical and laboratory differences of patients in the three stages of the disease were assessed according the ANOVA method of a factor for the quantitative variables and the Chi² for the qualitative ones. RESULTS: High blood pressure was higher as cause and cardiovascular risk factor in the three disease stages with a prevalence of 24.8; 30 and 25 % in 3, 4 and 5 stages, respectively. The hypertriglyceridemia had a distribution of 17.6; 18.6 and 14.3 % in 3, 4 and 5 stages, respectively. Left ventricular hypertrophy showed a increasing prevalence in 3, 4 and 5 stages with a distribution of 11.4; 16.2 and 21.4 %, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Treatment of modifiable factors in this group of patients is far to be optimal. Dyslipidemia and phosphocalcic alterations are turned down as significant elements of vascular risk. Left ventricular hypertrophy was the more frequent cardiac alteration.

Keywords : Chronic renal disease; cardiovascular risk factors; cardiovascular disease.

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