Lipid control and associated risk factors, before suffering from the first cardiovascular event.

Objective: To ascertain the degree of lipidic control before the first cardiovascular accident in population attended during 2013 at Primary Care. To analyze the distribution of these events depending on control intervals of cholesterol LDL (LDL-chol), cholesterol HDL (HDL-chol) and triglycerides (TG).

Method: A multicentric cross-sectional, descriptive study on above 18-year-old people attended at the centres of the Primari Care Service (PCS) Baix Llobregat Nord, who had suffered a first cardiac or cerebral ischemic attack from 01/01/2013 to 31/12/2013.

[Compliance with recommendations in secondary prevention of stroke in primary care].

Objective: Knowing compliance with secondary prevention recommendations of stroke in primary care and to identify factors associated with compliance.

Design: Multi-centre cross-sectional.

Setting: Health primary care centres in a metropolitan area (944,280 inhabitants).

Metabolic syndrome and peripheral artery disease: Two related conditions.

Aims: To ascertain the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MS) in patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) at the Martorell primary care (PC) center. To analyze the differences in comorbidities and cardiovascular risk factors between patients with PAD with and without MS.

Methods: A cross-sectional, descriptive study on patients diagnosed with PAD according to computerized clinical records of the Martorell PC center.