Objetivo: estimar o risco de doenças cardiovasculares em indígenas Krenak por meio do Escore Risco Cardiovascular Framingham. Metodologia: estudo epidemiológico transversal realizado com 30 a 74 anos, Terra Indígena localizada na região leste Minas Gerais, Brasil. Os dados coletados foram: peso e altura para cálculo IMC, aferição da pressão arterial glicemia capilar casual, sexo, idade tabagism...

In their thoughtful and provocative article ‘Are the Framingham and PROCAM coronary heart disease risk functions applicable to different European populations? The PRIME Study’, Drs Empana and colleagues astutely conclude that the answer is neither simple nor straightforward. On the one hand, they conclude that the Framingham (from the United States) and PROCAM (from Germany) risk functions over...

OBJECTIVE To derive a new cardiovascular disease risk score (QRISK) for the United Kingdom and to validate its performance against the established Framingham cardiovascular disease algorithm and a newly developed Scottish score (ASSIGN). DESIGN Prospective open cohort study using routinely collected data from general practice. SETTING UK practices contributing to the QRESEARCH database. P...

Introducción: Las Enfermedades cardiovasculares en el adulto mayor son la primera causa de muerte mundo, probabilidad padecerlas se incrementa con presencia Diabetes e Hipertensión arterial, es posible identificar factores riesgo cardiovascular a partir del instrumento Framingham, que estima 10 años desarrollar una Enfermedad Cardiovascular. Objetivo: Determinar 65 arterial y Mellitus Unidad Me...

1) The Framingham Study, Boston University School of Medicine, 73 Mt Wayte Ave Suite 2, Framingham, MA; 2) National Heart Lung & Blood Institute, Bethesda, MA; 3) Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Endocrinology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 4) Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; 5) Evans Memorial Department of Medicine and...

Previous reports indicate that cardiac output is increased early in the course of hypertension. The purpose of this study was to identify with echocardiography hemodynamic features in normotensive adults that predicted the development of hypertension. Framingham Heart Study subjects were eligible for this investigation if they were normotensive at the baseline examination (systolic blood pressu...

Background Sinking prebeta lipoprotein is a putative marker for elevated levels of lipoprotein (a). Although prospective data suggest that increased plasma lipoprotein (a) is an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease in men, no prospective studies are available in women. Methods and Results From 1968 through 1975, sinking prebeta lipoprotein was determined by paper electrophoresis i...