Riesgo cardiovascular, una herramienta útil para la prevención de las enfermedades cardiovasculares

the cardiovascular risk is defined like a probability of suffering a cardiovascular event in a determined period. to improve the accuracy in risk prediction requires the assessment and treatment of different cardiovascular risk factors, which have a synergistic effect more than additive on the total cardiovascular risk. the calculus using quantitative methods is more accurate than that obtained with qualitative methods. the prediction of cardiovascular risk has been in past years the cornerstone in clinical guidances of cardiovascular prevention and becomes an useful tool for family physician to establish priorities in the primary care, improving the patients care and selecting in a more effective way the therapy to be followed to bring closer more to multifactor reality of cardiovascular diseases and its prevention.