Estimation of the cardiovascular risk using World Health Organization/International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) risk prediction charts in a rural population of South India

摘要: Background: World Health Organization/International Society of Hypertension (WHO/ISH) charts have been employed to predict the risk cardiovascular outcome in heterogeneous settings. The aim this research is assess prevalence Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) factors and estimate among adults aged >40 years, utilizing alone, by addition other parameters. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed two villages availing health services a medical college. Overall 570 subjects completed assessment. desired information obtained using pre-tested questionnaire participants were also subjected anthropometric measurements laboratory investigations. WHO/ISH prediction for South-East Asian region used participants. Results: covered above 40 years. mean age 54.2 (±11.1) years 53.3% women. Seventeen percent had moderate high occurrence events charts. In addition, CVD like smoking, alcohol, low High-Density Lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol found 32%, 53%, 56.3%, 61.5% participants, respectively. Conclusion: Categorizing people as ( 20%) one crucial steps mitigate magnitude fatal/non-fatal outcome. This indicates that there burden rural Pondicherry assessed Use easy inexpensive screening tool predicting event