2024-01-31 06:57:07
According to the specialist, the treatment approach for cardiovascular disease at the Pavia Santurce Hospital is prevention.
By: Maria Camila Sanchez
January 31, 2024
The cardiovascular disease It constitutes the first cause worldwide, and Puerto Rico is no exception. And the fact is that a large part of the Puerto Rican population has some risk factor associated with these conditions, such as diabetes or hypertension.
“If you take 10 patients over 40 years old, 3 to 4 of them are going to be hypertensive, and they are already a risk factor,” said the prominent cardiologist, Dr. Edmundo Jordán exclusively to the Revista Medicina y Salud Pública.
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For this reason, and to serve this population, the Pavia Santurce Hospital has the necessary instruments and trained personnel, not only for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, but also for their prevention.
“From prevention, we have facilities to care for patients,” he noted. “We have a medical faculty with primary doctors, family doctors, internists and in turn specialists in clinical, interventional cardiology and electrophysiology.”
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Main risk factors for cardiovascular disease
Hypertension is one of the most prevalent risk factors in the population, both worldwide and in Puerto Rico. Likewise, genetic factors, smoking, high cholesterol levels and chronic diseases such as diabetes can negatively impact health. cardiovascular.
In fact, “the population of Puerto Rico has more than 17% diabetic prevalence.”
Therefore, one of the ways in which, Dr. Jordán assures, the mortality rate due to cardiovascular diseaseis taking into account the risk factors.
“At the Pavia Santurce Hospital we have a high-level institution for the evaluation and treatment of all cardiovascular processes, and it has an emergency room that has a pain center, cardiologists who are on call 24/7 to be able to care for everyone. the Puerto Rican population.”
Importance of cardiovascular evaluation
Additionally, the specialist emphasized that cardiovascular diseases do not always present symptoms, which is why it is important that, if you have any of the risk factors mentioned above, you need to undergo an evaluation to detect them in time.
“The cardiovascular disease, over time, may be asymptomatic. So if you already have risk factors, and even if you don’t have symptoms, know that you need an evaluation cardiovascular”.
Even so, in those who do present symptoms, these tend to be chest pain, palpitations, respiratory distress, collapses (syncope), among others.
“They are signs that alert the patient that they need an evaluation cardiovascular prompt and it is not to be left there in the pipeline. It is going to the cardiologist, going to your internist to be referred to the cardiologist, doing a preventive evaluation to avoid a heart attack or stroke.”
that alert the patient that they need an evaluation cardiovascular prompt and it is not to leave it there in the pipeline, the truth is to go to the cardiologist, go to your internist, have him refer you to your cardiologist, do a preventive evaluation and really quickly so that you can live a little longer and avoid a heart attack, right, or avoid a stroke
Multidisciplinary approach
Now, the detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease It requires a multidisciplinary approach, in which primary doctors, nurses, social workers and specialists in other areas also play an important role.
“We must treat the cardiovascular disease In an interdisciplinary way, we are comprehensive in treatment to produce good health in the community and society. Our goal, as doctors, is that the patient can have quality of life and can reach old age without cardiovascular events,” he concluded.
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