Association of cardiovascular emerging risk factors with acute coronary syndrome and stroke: A case-control study

What is it about?

Cardiovascular diseases are an important health problem around the world and emerging cardiovascular risk factors are causes we must fight. This paper shows the association some of emergengin cardiovascular risk factor with acute coronary syndrome and stroke.

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Why is it important?

- After controlling the confounding effects of age, sex and several classic CVRF, NT-proBNP independently predicted both the ACS as stroke and PAPP-A predicted ACS in the town of Motril. - The existence of modifiable classic CVRF in controls group similar in numbers to cases groups, as in the case of total cholesterol or body mass index, shows the high risk of population to suffering a CVD. So necessary health education programs are needed to avoid this outcome. - There isn´t any study about RCV of similar characteristics performed on the reference population of this tertiary hospital. - This study was designed and executed by nurses although it has had the other authors to aid in the analysis of biological samples or statistical analysis. - The body mass index is an independent predictor of CVD that should to be part of SCORE risk scale. - NT-proBNP and PAPP-A have shown its association with CVD, especially in the case of ACS, so research designed for this purpose are necessary to obtain conclusive data.