Revista de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Jul 2015)

Risk mesurement of cardiovascular disease in family health strategy users

  • Marcelo Machado Sassi,
  • Gianfábio Pimentel Franco,
  • Sidnei Petroni,
  • Débora Dalegrave,
  • Gabriela de Mattos Nogueira

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5902/2179769213396
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2
pp. 204 – 212

Abstract

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Aim: To quantify the risk on the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases in Family Health Strategy users. Method: quantitative, non-experimental, descriptive and cross-cut time study. For quantification of risk the Framingham General Cardiovascular Disease software was used. Results: 52 subjects were interviewed, 6 of them presented a degree of risk appropriated for their age, 27 had a high level risk for their age and 19 high-risk for their age. Conclusion: risk quantification enables the view on a situation, and thus to draw action plans for intervention

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