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- Title
Quo vadis, prevencija kroničnih nezaraznih bolesti? Novi primjer iz Zagreba.
- Authors
Ivanuša, Mario; Škerk, Vedrana; Heinrich, Marija; Hrstić, Nada; Krstačić, Goran; Pajić, Ivana Portolan
- Abstract
The central event of the World Heart Day 2015 in Croatia was an open public-health initiative screening for leading cardiovascular risk factors in the city of Zagreb. Individuals with very high risk factor prevalence were accepted into the “Guardians of the Heart” program that assessed cardiovascular risk and offered advice on health. The goal of this article is to report on these results and demonstrate the significance of detecting specific risk factors in individuals with high cardiovascular risk. After an announcement in the media, participants voluntarily applied for free assessment of cardiovascular risk factors during the public event. For interested citizens, health professionals determined the body-mass index (BMI), measured blood pressure (BP), and determined glucose levels and total cholesterol from capillary blood. The first 100 participants with extremely high prevalence of individual risk factors were invited to further detailed evaluation and cardiovascular risk assessment at the Institute for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation in Zagreb. The results of both actions are presented here. participants invited to detailed cardiovascular risk assessment, 77% responded, of whom 75.2% were women and 24.7% men. Increased BP levels were found in 90.9% of these respondents; dyslipidemia in 85.7%, increased waist size in 84.4%, and 78.9% had elevated BMI. We performed an additional analysis on the results of 30 participants with existing hypertension and dyslipidemia and found elevated risk factors, including elevated BMI (80.0%), waist size (76.7%), urate levels (23.3%), C-reactive protein (16.7%), creatinine (10.0%), and blood glucose levels (10.0%). The most common risk factors in the participants of this public-health action were arterial hypertension and increased BMI. In participants with existing hypertension and dyslipidemia we noted a dismissive approach to these risk factors, both in the sense of non-treatment.
- Publication
Cardiologia Croatica, 2015, Vol 10, Issue 11-12, p274
- ISSN
1848-543X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15836/ccar2015.274