A Hipertensão Arterial Sistêmica é um dos fatores de risco mais predominantes para o surgimento Doenças Crônicas não Transmissíveis. O Escore Risco Framingham (ERF) aplicado detectar os riscos cardiovasculares em período 10 anos, com base na idade, gênero, pressão arterial sistólica, colesterol total, fração HDL do e tabagismo. presente trabalho teve como objetivo identificar cardiovascular hip...

OBJECTIVE To determine the 10-year Cardiovascular risk score with QRISK-2 and Framingham risk calculators in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Non Rheumatoid Arthritis subjects and asses the usefulness of QRISK-2 and Framingham calculators in both groups. METHODS During the study 106 RA and 106 Non RA patients age and sex matched participants were enrolled from outpatient department. Demographic data ...

OBJECTIVE to assess cardiovascular risk by means of the traditional Framingham score and the version modified through the incorporation of emerging risk factors, such as family history of acute myocardial infarction, metabolic syndrome and chronic kidney disease. METHOD participants were 50 hypertensive patients under outpatient treatment. The clinical data were collected through a semi-struc...

D e s c r i p t i o n o f t e s t s a n d d i a g n o s t i c s t a n d a r d Blood for BNP levels was taken using the Triage BNP test (Biosite Diagnostics, San Diego, CA, USA), a point-of-care method based on fluorescence immunoassay. The BNP measurements were done on frozen plasma approximately 1 to 2 months after blood collection. Doppler echocardiography was done within 60 minutes of enroll...

Obesity is a vexing problem for the clinician and for the cardiovascular physiologist alike. Although we tend to blame an “obesogenic” environment, nobody really knows the cause for the current obesity epidemic. Is it the environment? Is it genes? Or is it the environment acting on certain genes? Currently approximately 6% of the American population is clinically severely obese (1) and it is we...

BACKGROUND We determined whether vascular and valvular calcification predicted incident major coronary heart disease, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and all-cause mortality independent of Framingham risk factors in the community-based Framingham Heart Study. METHODS AND RESULTS Coronary artery calcium (CAC), thoracic and abdominal aortic calcium, and mitral or aortic valve calcium were measure...