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[FINDRISC Test: Relationship between cardiovascular risk parameters and scales in Spanish Mediterranean population]
Ángel Arturo López-González1, Sheila García-Agudo, Matías Tomás-Salvá
1Servicio de Prevención de Riesgos Laborales, Servei de Salut de les Illes Balears, Hospital de Manacor. angarturo@gmail.com.
Background:
The Finnish Diabetes Risk Score (FINDRISC) questionnaire has been used to assess the risk of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. The objetive was to assess the relationship between different scales related to cardiovascular risk and FINDRISC questionnaire.
Methods:
Values of different anthropometric and clinical parameters (body mass index, waist circumference, waist to height ratio, blood pressure), analytical parameters (lipid profile, blood glucose) and scales related to cardiovascular risk (atherogenic index, metabolic syndrome, REGICOR, SCORE, heart age and vascular age) were determined on the basis of the value of the FINDRISC questionnaire.
Results:
All analyzed parameters related to cardiovascular risk were getting worse at the same time that the value of the FINDRISC questionnaire increased.
Conclusions:
There is a close relationship between FINDRISC questionnaire values and those obtained in the different parameters by which cardiovascular risk was measured directly or indirectly.
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