Medicina clinica
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Observational Study
Value of estimating pulse wave velocity compared to SCORE in cardiovascular risk stratification in community pharmacies.
Arterial stiffness is considered to be an intermediate marker with independent prognostic value. The objective of this study is to assess whether the estimation of arterial stiffness can improve CV risk stratification compared to SCORE in patients at community pharmacies. ⋯ More than half of the subjects who randomly enter a community pharmacy had ages that make it impossible to calculate the CV risk by SCORE. Among them, arterial damage was detected in 18.1%. Of the other half, 9.6% presented arterial damage and, therefore, high CV risk, when SCORE only detected it in 2.1%. Therefore, estimating arterial stiffness in community pharmacies markedly improves detection of high CV risk compared to SCORE.
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Observational Study
The value of waist circumference as a preditor of cardiovascular risk in adult patients with classic phenylketonuria.
We aimed to evaluate the differences in some cardiovascular risk (CVR) factors between adult patients without and with phenylketonuria (PKU) and to explore the correlation between waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI) with the previous variables. ⋯ Waist circumference rather than BMI may better represent the CVR in patients with PKU.