Global cardiovascular risk and vascular age: key tools in cardiovascular diseases prevention

Authors

  • Mercy Achiong Alemañy Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas. Matanzas.
  • Fernando Achiong Estupiñán Centro Provincial de Higiene Epidemiología y Microbilogía de Matanzas.
  • Fernando Achiong Alemañy Hogar de Ancianos de Matanzas. Matanzas.
  • José Alberto Alfonso de León Hospital Universitario Clínico Quirúrgico Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández. Matanzas.
  • María del Carmen Álvarez Escobar Hospital Universitario Clínico Quirúrgico Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández. Matanzas.
  • Mavidey Suárez Merino Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas. Matanzas.

Keywords:

enfermedades cardiovasculares, factores de riesgo cardiovascular, riesgo cardiovascular global, tablas de riesgo, edad vascular.

Abstract

Background: with the society development and changes in life style, cardiovascular diseases are the first cause of death in the world and in Cuba. They could be preventable if acting on their cardiovascular risk factors that are stratified estimating the global cardiovascular risk. The main factors are summed up in tables, determining the possibility of presenting a cardiovascular disease in 5 or 10 years. Cardiovascular age is calculated on the basis of the global cardiovascular risk. It is a useful tool for motivating patients to eliminate the cardiovascular risk factors. For all the before said, the authors planed to review theoretical referents of the global cardiovascular risk and the vascular age. 

Method: it was carried out a search in the Virtual Library of Infomed. 231 works were reviewed without year or country limitation, selecting 49 of them. 

Development: there they were characterized 14 tables calculating the global cardiovascular risk factor, beginning from Framinghan study. In Cuba, it were used the classic ones of Framinghan, World Health Organization, International Society of Hypertension and Gaziano without laboratory teats. An individual’s vascular age is the same as it would be the age of a person with one and the same global vascular risk, but with all the cardiovascular risk factors at normal levels. This has a great emotional load leading the patient to take preventive measures.

Conclusions: the tables stratifying the global cardiovascular risk should be adjusted to the epidemiologic reality of each country. Of all the tables used in Cuba, Gaziano´s without laboratory  test is the most workable one. Vascular age is an easy form of communicating the risk of suffering cardiovascular diseases. 

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Published

2016-03-21

How to Cite

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Achiong Alemañy M, Achiong Estupiñán F, Achiong Alemañy F, Alfonso de León JA, Álvarez Escobar M del C, Suárez Merino M. Global cardiovascular risk and vascular age: key tools in cardiovascular diseases prevention. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2016 Mar. 21 [cited 2025 Mar. 13];38(2):211-26. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/1641

Issue

Vol. 38 No. 2 (2016)

Section

Review article

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