Framingham risk score for prediction of cardiovascular diseases: a population-based study from southern Europe.

Background: The question about what risk function should be used in primary prevention remains unanswered. The Framingham Study proposed a new algorithm based on three key ideas: use of the four risk factors with the most weight (cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes and smoking), prediction of overall cardiovascular diseases and incorporating the concept of vascular age. The objective of this study was to apply this new function in a cohort of the general non Anglo-Saxon population, with a 10-year follow-up to determine its validity.

[Association of insulin resistance to different anthropometric measures and cardiovascular risk factors in a non-diabetic population].

Background And Objective: Insulin resistance (IR) has been directly related to obesity, particularly central obesity, and to other cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs). Direct IR quantification is difficult in clinical practice, and indirect methods such as HOMA (homeostasis model assessment) have therefore been developed. The aim of this study was to assess the association of IR, as measured by HOMA, with different anthropometric measures and some CVRFs.

[Trends in prevalence of risk factors and global cardiovascular risk in general population of albacete, Spain (1992-94 a 2004-06)].

Background: To establish strategies for prevention of cardiovascular disease implies to know its epidemiology and evolution in time. The objective of this study is to know the prevalence of risk factors and cardiovascular risk in two moments during the following of a grownup general population.

Methods: Study of cohorts, followed at random selected general population during 12 years (1992-94 to 2204-06).

[Different uses of home blood pressure measurement in the diagnosis and monitoring of hypertension].

Objective: To find differences between measurements of clinical blood pressure and self-monitored home blood pressure measurement (HBPM).

Design: Descriptive study developed in a general population census.

Setting: Primary care.

Home-based self-measurement of blood pressure: a proposal using new reference values (the PURAS study).

Objectives: To establish reference values for blood pressure by means of self-measurement of blood pressure (BP) conducted at home.

Design: Descriptive study of the distribution of self-measured BP at home and its correspondence with clinic-based measurements of BP.

Methods: The aim of this study is to define the home BP levels that correspond to clinic BP thresholds 140/90 mmHg (hypertension) and 130/85 mmHg (normality).