Abstract:
Cardiovascular diseases with its high frequency, are a major public health problem in all
countries 7.5 million of these deaths are due to coronary heart disease and 6.7 million to
stroke(OMS, 2012). According to the WHO study (2014) 41% of deaths are due to CVD in
Algeria. Thus. the purpose of our work is to predict the prevalence of cardiovascular risk in our
population and its associated risk factors prevalence and distributions according to the
characteristics of the sample. For this, data of a sample of 769 patients free from all cardiovascular
diseases were collected and analyzed according to the Framingham model. Thus, the results show
that 88.82% of the subjects in our sample are at low risk, 9.62% at moderate risk and 1.56% at
high risk, with very highly significant evolution in the degree of risk according to age. Men were
found to be more exposed to coronary cardiovascular risk than women with a very highly
significant difference (91.99% of women at low risk versus 75.36% of men at the same level of
risk). The prevalence of associated risk factors was, in descending order; 40.96% (HTA), 27.05%
(Hypercholesterolemia), 24.31% (Hypo-HDL) and 6.89% (Smoking). Thus, hypertension seems to
be the major contributor to the prevalence of total cardiovascular risk in our population. The mean
values of PAS. PAD, total cholesterol and HDI-C fall on the threshold of normal, which is
explained by the low cardiovascular risk of our sample.
