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Questionnaire addressed to the physician
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Academic training, work-setting and other characteristics of the physicians
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- Conditions in usual daily practice for cardiovascular risk factors measurement.
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- The use of global cardiovascular risk assessment and barriers encountered in clinical practice.
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- Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of physicians regarding cardiovascular prevention and management
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- For every patient, information on management of cardiovascular risk (frequency of cardiovascular risk factors assessment, lifestyle counselling, therapeutic goals, treatment adherence).
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Questionnaire addressed to patients, and clinical record abstraction
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Patients' demographic and psychosocial characteristics
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- Relevant family medical history: early cardiovascular event
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- CVD risk factors related to lifestyle (tobacco smoking, physical activity)
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- Comorbidity
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Current medication: antihypertensives, statins and other lipid-lowering drugs, oral antidiabetics, insulin, anticoagulants, aspirin, and combination drug therapy
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Laboratory results taken from the clinical record (most recent blood data and physical examination during the previous year)
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- Total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, non-HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, blood pressure, hemoglobine-A1c
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Measurements performed on patients during the medical visit
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Weight, height, waist and hip circumference, and blood pressure, under standardized conditions
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Blood sample collected during the medical visit
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- Total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol, non-HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, apolipoprotein B, apolipoprotein AI, hemoglobine-A1c, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, creatinine, uric acid.
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