Investigation of risk factors to coronary heart disease in two countryside villages

• Autor(a) principal: Silva,Gisleine Elisa Cavalcante da
• Data de Publicação: 2004
• Outros Autores: Bazotte,Roberto Barbosa, Curi,Rui, Silva,Maria Angélica Rafaini Covas Pereira da
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132004000300008
• topic: Hyperlipidemia; hyperglycemia; hypertension; obesity; coronary heart disease - Paraná State - Brazil

The aim of this study was to investigate risk factors to coronary heart disease in two countryside villages in the State of Paraná, southern Brazil, typical in terms of the poverty and lack of access to public health care. All population was invited to participate in the study. The 462 volunteers (61.3% female, mean age = 42 years) showed high prevalence of hypercholesterolemia (7.0%), hypertriglyceridemia (19.0%), hyperglycemia (11.0%), hypertension (30.0%) and obesity (16.0%). The majority of the individuals, during the interview did not report the diseases detected by the testes. The results revealed that the high prevalence of hypercholesterolemia, hypertriglyceridemia, obesity, hypertension and diabetes mellitus could be consequence of the delayed detection of these diseases or inadequate treatment after diagnostic.