Rivera LE, Bauta LL, González HJA, Arcia CN, Valerino MI, Placencia OE

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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The cardiovascular diseases, are of great importance like cause of death for the humanity and they constitute the first cause of death in the developed countries at the moment. The control of the risk factors is an indispensable element for the prevention of these illnesses. The best tool to establish priorities in primary cardiovascular prevention is the estimation of the risk of developing them.
Objective: To describe the category of risk of cardiovascular diseases in persons with ages understood among 40 and 79 years of a Doctor's Office number 7 of Policlinic: "Aleida Fernández Chardiet" of the municipality Lisa, from November 2015 to June 2016.
Methods: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in persons with ages among 40 and 79 years. The studied population was constituted by 335 people. Distributions of frequencies, percentage calculations, standard deviation and measures of central tendency were used.
Results: The sex more affected by the cardiovascular risk moderate-high, it constituted by the masculine with 36 people (10,8% of the total of studied people). It prevailed in general sense in the whole population the cardiovascular global risk low, present in 81,8% of the total, followed by the risk moderate present in 12,9% of the total.
Conclusions: Most of the population presented a cardiovascular global risk low. The cardiovascular risk moderate-high it affected in more frequency to the patients with aged among 70 and 79 years, to those of the masculine sex and most of the diabetic patients.