Estimación del riesgo cardiovascular en la población con dislipidemia del personal docente y administrativo de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja Sede Loja

Abstract

Abstract: The present study, considering the significance of dyslipidemias, was carried out in order to describe the cardiovascular risk present in the dyslipidemic population of the teaching and administrative staff of the UTPL Sede Loja in the period 2017-2020, therefore the population was characterized according to the presence of the diferent dyslipidemias, determining that only those under 40 years of age are in accordance with the characteristics of the region, suffering with greater prevalence of atherogenic dyslipidemia; absolute cardiovascular risk was estimated in 39 patients aged 40 years or older using the two versions of Globorisk and PROCAM, establishing that the majority of the population is stratified as low to moderate risk on all the scales; due to the differences in the characteristics of the scales, the existence of statistically significant diferences was determined in the prediction of risk estimated by the scales that occupy laboratory values and those that do not using the paired t-test. Finally, it was determined that the 20 patients younger than 40 years were stratified as low to moderate relative cardiovascular risk according to SCORE.