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Cardiovascular Disease

Research from T. Zachariadou and co-researchers yields new findings on cardiovascular disease

Published in Health Risk Factor Week, September 16th, 2008

"Recent guidelines recommend assessment and treatment of the overall risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) through management of multiple risk factors in patients at high absolute risk. The aim of our study was to assess the level of cardiovascular risk in patients with known risk factors for CVD by applying the SCORE risk function and to study the implications of European guidelines on the use of treatment and goal attainment for blood pressure (BP) and lipids in the primary care of Cyprus," scientists in Nicosia, Cyprus report.

"Retrospective chart review of 1101 randomly selected patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2), or hypertension or hyperlipidemia in four...

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