title: Coronary heart disease risk: the results of population screening by the Central Region Branch of the Portuguese Heart Foundation.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To assess the ten-year risk of coronary heart disease according to the 1998 Task Force Report.
  
  
  METHODS
  1013 adults, aged between 30 and 79 years, were studied by trained paramedics, using a pre-determined routine technique. Prevalences: occasional capillary glycemia > 126 mg/dl in 11.2%, occasional capillary hypercholesterolemia > 190 mg/dl in 46.7%, arterial systolic hypertension in 37.3% and smoking habit in 18.2%. About 27.5% of the total were taking cardiovascular medication. There was a high or very high risk for coronary heart disease in 6.8% of the population, male 10.4% and female 3.8%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  We found that the prevalence of high and very high risk for coronary heart disease is about 6.8%, being higher in men. Risk increases with age, the most prevalent being moderate risk, once again affecting mostly males.
authors.affiliation: Delegação Centro da Fundação Portuguesa de Cardiologia, Coimbra. lmsantiago@netcabo.pt
authors.forename: Luiz Miguel
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Santiago
authors.forename: Polybio
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Serra e Silva
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011174:Portugal; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors