Valdés RE, Castillo OY, Valdés BE

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ABSTRACT

Background: the assessment of overall cardiovascular risk is important to establish preventive measures in patients with high risk of cardiovascular disease.
Objective: to estimate the overall cardiovascular risk in type 2 diabetic middleaged women.
Methods: a transversal and descriptive study was carried out with 458 middleaged women (40 to 59 years old) who consecutively attended the Diabetics Care Center of Bayamo, Granma from 2010 to 2016. The overall cardiovascular risk was determined according to the models proposed by the World Health Organization for our country.
Results: the overall cardiovascular risk of diabetic middle-aged women was moderate in the 10.1 % (46 patients), high in the 3.1 % (14 patients), and very high in the 2.4 % (11 patients). Postmenopausal women showed a significantly higher overall cardiovascular risk than those who were not in this stage (OR= 1.89, CI= 1.03-3.1, p= 0.0413). The risk clearly increased as the time of occurrence of the menopause increased (p= 0.0245). The prevalence of systolic hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and smoking habit was higher in postmenopausal women but this didn´t become statistically relevant.
Conclusions: the overall cardiovascular risk of type 2 diabetic middle-aged women increases with the menopause and with the time of occurrence of this event.