1. [Decile distribution of risk of mortality from ischemic cardiopathy in the male population registered at a health care center].
- Author
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Sánchez de Toro Larios JM, Navarro Martínez A, Hernández Ruipérez T, Martínez Ros MT, López Piñera M, and Ferrer Mora A
- Subjects
- Adult, Age Distribution, Health Facilities, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Myocardial Ischemia mortality
- Abstract
Objective: To distribute the male population registered at our health centre into deciles of risk of death from ischaemic heart disease, using only the data in the clinical history., Design: A crossover, retrospective and observational study, without random distribution., Setting: Urban health centre., Patients and Other Participants: The work material was 2848 clinical histories of men aged between 25 and 55 1420 of these were histories with up-to-date data because the men had had a consultation during the preceding year., Measurements and Main Results: The method proposed by Shaper to evaluate cardiovascular risk was used. The most prevalent risk factor was tobacco dependency, at 50.1% (CI 95%, 47.5-52.7), whereas hypertension and diabetes did not exceed 14.1% (CI, 12.3-15.9) and 2.5% (CI, 0.016-3.31), respectively, 90% of those under 35 were in the 10-30 deciles, while about half the over-45s were in the 40-90 deciles., Conclusions: Use of the Shaper method enabled us to distribute our male patients according to risk and identify 4% (2.56-5.37) as being at high risk of ischaemic heart disease.
- Published
- 1998