Significance of the commonest risk factors of chronic non-infectious cardiovascular diseases in patients of a multi-field sanatorium

Abstract

Ninety three patients admitted for the treatment at the Central Military sanatorium, Russian Ministry of Defense, in the city of Kislovodsk, underwent medical examination for the evaluation of significance of the most frequent risk factors of developing pre-nosological and nosological forms of chronic non-infectious cardiovascular diseases. Results of the study suggest high prognostic value of excess body weight and diagnostic importance of the relative number of patients with maximum arterial pressure figures above the normal ones. The main risk factor among characteristics of lipid metabolism is atherogenicity index followed by total cholesterol level. Blood levels of triglycerides, low and very low density lipoproteides are of smaller importance as risk factors of chronic non-infectious cardiovascular diseases while the prognostic value of the high density lipoproteide concentration is negligible.