[Lifestyles and alterations of finger-stick glucose and cholesterol and blood pressure among fifty-year-old Italian and foreign residents in the Alto Vicentino Health District (Veneto Region, Northern Italy)].

Objectives: to describe and compare cardiovascular risk prevalence in a large sample of Italian and foreign fifty-year-old residents in Veneto Region (Northern Italy) who do not have a co-pay fee exemption for cardiovascular diseases. Data collection comes from standardized and objective measurements carried out by health personnel of the Department of Prevention of the Local Health Agency 7 of Veneto Region.

Design: cross-sectional study.