Abstract Background The prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is important in clinical practice due to its high morbidity and mortality. Different guidelines have recommended the use of different cardiovascular risk assessment tools, which may have implications on therapeutic decisions. Objective To evaluate the agreement rate between the Framingham risk score (FRS) and the Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE) tool on CVD risk assessment in disease-free subjects. Methods Cross-sectional study with a sample of 51 subjects treated at the outpatient clinic […]

Abstract Background: Cardiovascular diseases are a major cause of morbidity and mortality today. Despite its wide distribution, it presents particularly prevalent in certain groups of individuals, particularly when exposed to a higher degree of inflammation, giving increased cardiovascular risk. Rheumatic diseases expose their holders to this increased cardiovascular risk condition; however only recently have been associated with spondyloarthritis, particularly ankylosing spondylitis (AS). For being a classically autoimmune disease related to HLA histocompatibility system, AS may present phenotypic variations in different […]

Resumo Fundamentos: A depressão é uma condição clínica sindrômica subdiagnosticada em pacientes com insuficiência cardíaca. Uma variedade de instrumentos é atualmente aplicada no rastreamento da depressão. Objetivo: Determinar a prevalência da depressão e a concordância entre os métodos de rastreamento para depressão em pacientes com insuficiência cardíaca. Métodos: Estudo transversal realizado entre março de 2015 e janeiro de 2017 com 76 pacientes ambulatoriais acompanhados em uma clínica especializada de insuficiência cardíaca. A depressão foi rastreada pela Escala de Avaliação de […]