Abstract:Introduction: Among the main chronic diseases are cardiovascular diseases, with systemic arterial hypertension and diabetes mellitus as important risk factors. The identification of patients with high cardiovascular risk is a priority action in Primary Health Care. The Framingham score is used for this classification. The motivation for this study was the finding of the loss of outpatient follow-up of patients with hypertension and diabetes, which leads to treatment abandonment and a high number of complicatio… Show more
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