Abdominal circumference and risk of cardiovascular disease in Doctor's Office 22 . “Aleida Fernández Chardiet” Polyclinic. 2016

• Main Authors: Emilio Rivera Ledesma, Aliusca Fornaris Hernández, Regla María Ledesma Santiago, Gladys María López del Rosario, Yanelis Aguirre Pérez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de La Habana 2018-08-01
• Series: Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas
• Online Access: http://www.revhabanera.sld.cu/index.php/rhab/article/view/2261

<p><strong>ABSTRACT<br /></strong></p><p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that abdominal obesity is the most important risk factor and the one that best explains the occurrence of a first acute myocardial infarction in Latin American countries. </p><p><strong>Objective:  </strong>To determine the risk of cardiovascular disease by measuring the abdominal circumference in Doctor's Office 22 of "Aleida  Fernández Chardiet” Teaching Polyclinic, La Lisa municipality, Havana, Cuba, in 2016.</p><p><strong>Material and Methods:</strong> An observational descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in people older than 17 years old. The universe of study was composed of 538 persons. Distributions of frequencies, percentage calculations, and the Chi-square test were used. </p><p><strong>Results:</strong> With regard to the value of abdominal circumference, 42,9% of people presented a high risk of cardiovascular disease, which predominated in the male sex (48,0%). Only 16,5% of diabetic patients presented a low risk. The 50,6% of patients with arterial hypertension, and the 45,4% of smokers presented a high risk.  </p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Regarding the evaluation of the abdominal circumference, a high risk of cardiovascular disease was observed in the majority of population studied, especially in the male sex, diabetics, hypertensive patients, and smokers.  A statistically significant relationship was observed in patients with risk of cardiovascular disease due to abdominal obesity and age, sex, <em>Diabetes Mellitus,</em> and arterial hypertension.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Epidemiology, risk factors, abdominal circumference, cardiovascular disease, primary health care.</p>