Estratificar o risco cardiovascular em pacientes com diabetes mellitus e hipertensão arterial sistêmica

Abstract

Hypertension and diabetes mellitus are the major demands of performance of family health teams . The establishment of early diagnosis and intervention in primary care are able to reduce the absolute number of hospitalizations and functional impairment due to acute and chronic complications before an inadequate control of these chronic diseases - non-communicable degenerative diseases of high prevalence and indirectly responsible for much of recorded deaths due to cardiovascula disease. This work aimed to stratify cardiovascular risk in patients with Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension of the patients registered in Basic Health Unit Várzea da Olaria of Itaúna. A literature review on the Virtual Health Library for the purpose the existing evidence and seek those that can be applied in this study was performed . It was concluded that to stratify cardiovascular risk can intervene early in those identified as high risk in order to reduce the number of hospitalizations due to cardiovascular complications as well as the morbidity and mortality caused by them, interferes with quality of life of these patients.