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TANG P, Maily; CASTRO, Jessica  e  CHANG, Guadalupe. Risk of coronary artery disease in the short term in workers of the directorate of health Bolivar municipality: Aragua State, 2012. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.1, pp.56-63. ISSN 1690-3293.

Coronary artery disease is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide so it becomes a public health issue. This is caused by different factors modifiable risk and nonmodifiable which trigger the individual´s disease occurrence, being the health worker an individual whose employment, occupational exposure and occupational stress is special and that determine their health and can trigger cardiovascular conditions affect his area, we decided to assess the short-term risk of coronary artery disease in a sample of 99 professionals who worked in the municipal health directorate of the Bolívar Municipality , Aragua -Venezuela, to which underwent lipid profile ( total cholesterol, HDL-c, LDL-c, VLDL-c and triglyceride, non HDL-c), glucose and ultrasensitive reactive c-protein. The prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors found in these individuals was categorized according to the Framingham scale: low risk (<1-9%) represented by 98.55% women and 96.67% in men, the risk moderate (10-19%) was represented by 1.45% in women and 3.33% in men workers. Likewise, lipid profile, BMI, smoking habits and alcoholics were more salient variables of this study, all of modifiable lifestyles changes in these workers.

Palavras-chave : Coronary Artery Disease; risk factors; cardiovascular risk.

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