[Strategies for the detection of dyslipemias in primary care in La Rioja]

We was carried out a survey between all primary care physicians (PCP) of La Rioja on their social and demographic data, anamnesis on their factors of cardiovascular risk and behavior in the strategies of hypercholesterolemia detection. The 65% of the PCP ask to their patient on knowledge of their cholesterol; this proportion increases between the physicians that know the recommendations of the Spanish Atherosclerosis Society (SAS) (p < 0.002). The 100% of the PCP determine some lipid parameter when they specify a blood sample for another reason or in presence of arterial hypertension, coronary heart disease, dyslipidemias or diabetes mellitus. In presence af smoking habit or oral contraceptive use, PCP that know the SAS or that they work in the rural environment, respectively, they solicit lipid parameters with a greater frequency (p < 0.04 and p < 0.03). Only a 23% of the PCP carry out electrocardiogram in case of a hyperlipidemia, percentage that is incremented between those that works in primary health centers ar in the urban medium (p < 0.03 and p < 0.03). A quarter af the PCP don't refer to the specialized attention to their patients with uncontrolled dyslipidemia and almost the 10% they would not send them under no circumstance. Although in general seem us adequate the behavior in opportunist detection of the PCP, this improves up on knowing the normative of national consensus.