OR-5: Do the specialists stratify the cardiovascular risk better than general practitioners?

• Published in: American journal of hypertension 2002-04, Vol.15 (S3), p.2A-2A
• Main Authors: Barrios, Vivencio, Navarro-Cid, Josefa, Calderón, Alberto, Campo, Carlos, Ruilope, Luis M.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Cardiovascular Risk Stratification; Primary Care Medicine; Specalists
• ISSN: 0895-7061; 1941-7225; 1879-1905
• DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7061(02)02285-9

The CONTROLRISK study was aimed to know the cardiovascular risk (CVR) profile of the Spanish hypertensive patients attended in primary care medicine (PCM) and compared it to that of the patients who attend a specialist outpatient clinic (SOC). We investigated whether the specialists stratified the CVR better than general practitioners (GPs). For this purpose, with the clinical data provided by the physicians, we centrally classified the CVR level and compared it with the CVR assessed by the physician. For reminding the risk stratification, we gave to all the investigators (from SOC and PCM) the WHO/ISH 1999 table. We present the preliminary data of the first enrolled patients. To date, 6.858 patients have been included, 3.694 from SOC and 3.164 from PCM. The demographic characteristics are: age 63.1±11 vs 63.3±11 (SOC vs PCM; p=ns); females 52.1% vs 56.6% (p