Abstract
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) continue to be an important public health problem and one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, generating economic and social impacts., In Brazil, CVD costs have been increasing significantly and are the highest when compared to other causes of hospitalization. Moreover, as the population ages, and with the increase in CVD prevalence, these expenses tend to be even higher. Therefore, early detection and possible changes in cardiovascular risk factors can be important in order [...]
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil Referent to the article: Optimal Cutoff of the TG/high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c) ratio for Cardiovascular Risk in Hypertensive and Diabetic Patients Monitored by Primary Health Care in a city in Minas Gerais
In an attempt to identify asymptomatic individuals with a greater predisposition for the disease and define therapeutic goals, many evaluation tools have been developed to estimate risks for Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), such as Framingham’s Global Risk Score (GRS), adopted by the Department of Atherosclerosis of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology (SBC-DA, in Portuguese) and which evaluates the risk of cardiovascular events over a 10-year period through the variables of age, sex, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), total cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, smoking, and diabetes.[4]
Other indexes have been proposed to predict the cardiovascular risk, among which, what stands out are the ratio between triglycerides (TG) and HDL-c (TG/HDL-c), which reflects small and dense particles of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), which are more atherogenic than the larger floating LDL
Summary
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ - Brazil Referent to the article: Optimal Cutoff of the TG/HDL-c ratio for Cardiovascular Risk in Hypertensive and Diabetic Patients Monitored by Primary Health Care in a city in Minas Gerais. Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) continue to be an important public health problem and one of the main causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, generating economic and social impacts.[1,2] In Brazil, CVD costs have been increasing significantly and are the highest when compared to other causes of hospitalization.
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