The most aware patients on their risks to be reached of a cardiovascular trouble would be more minded to adopt better habits of life and, so, to reduce their rate of bad cholesterol. It is the conclusion of the CHECK-UP1,2 survey of the academic Center of health of the McGill university.
According to the results, the treatments for the hyperboles including a continuous follow-up with a physician were slightly more efficient than the regular treatments. More than 1 510 patients received a report retailed on their cardiovascular risks to each of them visits quarterly.
This report presented the patient’s age cardiovasculaire3,4, a concept that permits to follow the evolution of the state of health of the patient, notably. For example, the cardiovascular age of a smoker of 43 years, that makes the plumpness and of which the rate of cholesterol and the arterial tension are superior to the average, would be the equivalent of the one of a man of 51 years. If all factors of risk were reduced, this man would have a cardiovascular age of 42 years.
The best results of the survey have been gotten by the patients whose cardiovascular age was the most distant of their real age.
The survey mobilized 230 Canadian physicians who followed, during one year, 2 687 patient treated for hyperboles and susceptible to make a cardiac stop. Some among them presented several factors of cardiovascular risks, as the obesity, the tobacco addiction, the sedentary lifestyle or hypertension.
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