Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
The prevention of cardiovascular disease is today a fundamental aspect of clinical practice, not only to prevent the first infarction (primary prevention), but also the second (secondary prevention).
The absence of symptoms in a person is not synonymous with the absence of disease. Today we know that atherosclerotic plaque, an injury to the wall of the artery, on which the complications that cause the infarction occur, begins at an early age and depends on much of the existence of so-called risk factors.
To prevent any disease it is necessary to quantify the individual risk of each person. There are tables that according to the prevalence of the disease in each region allows to know if that person is at high or low risk of dying from that disease.
Our prevention program also incorporates imaging techniques with ultrasound of the carotid artery or the coronary calcium score, which makes it possible to more accurately predict the risk in intermediate cases.

