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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Arq Bras Cardiol</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">abc</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">Arq. Bras. Cardiol.</abbrev-journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">0066-782X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">1678-4170</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia - SBC</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id" specific-use="scielo-v3">pDmrxxGZptWMCdpfVRDsdqf</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id" specific-use="scielo-v2">S0066-782X2015002300325</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5935/abc.20150128</article-id>
      <article-categories>
        <subj-group subj-group-type="heading">
          <subject>Editorial</subject>
        </subj-group>
      </article-categories>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>Cardiovascular Risk Factors: From Consolidated Knowledge to a Call for Action</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Grezzana</surname>
            <given-names>Guilherme Brasil</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01">1</xref>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Pellanda</surname>
            <given-names>Lucia Campos</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff01">1</xref>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff02">2</xref>
          <xref ref-type="corresp" rid="c01"/>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <aff id="aff01">
        <label>1</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Funda&#231;&#227;o Universit&#225;ria de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <named-content content-type="city">Porto Alegre</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">RS</named-content>
        </addr-line>
        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Funda&#231;&#227;o Universit&#225;ria de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul &#8211; ICFUC, Porto Alegre, RS &#8211; Brazil</institution>
      </aff>
      <aff id="aff02">
        <label>2</label>
        <institution content-type="orgname">Universidade Federal de Ci&#234;ncias da sa&#250;de de Porto Alegre</institution>
        <addr-line>
          <named-content content-type="city">Porto Alegre</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">RS</named-content>
        </addr-line>
        <country country="BR">Brazil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Universidade Federal de Ci&#234;ncias da sa&#250;de de Porto Alegre &#8211; UFCSPA, Porto Alegre, RS &#8211; Brazil</institution>
        <institution content-type="normalized">Universidade Federal de Ci&#234;ncias da Sa&#250;de de Porto Alegre</institution>
      </aff>
      <author-notes>
        <corresp id="c01">Mailing Address: Lucia Campos Pellanda, Av. Princesa Isabel, 370, Santana Postal Code 90620-000. Porto Alegre, RS &#8211; Brazil E-mail:   <email>lupellanda@gmail.com</email></corresp>
      </author-notes>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub-ppub">
        <month>10</month>
        <year>2015</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>105</volume>
      <issue>4</issue>
      <fpage>325</fpage>
      <lpage>327</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">
          <license-p>This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <kwd-group xml:lang="en">
        <title>Keywords</title>
        <kwd>Risk Factors</kwd>
        <kwd>Cardiovascular Diseases</kwd>
        <kwd>Prevention</kwd>
        <kwd>Epidemiologic Studies</kwd>
        <kwd>Data Interpretation Statistical</kwd>
        <kwd>Journals Articles</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
    </article-meta>
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    <p>Since the decade of 1950, the most prominent journal in cardiology in Brazil,   <italic>Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (ABC)</italic>, has been indexed in Medline<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B01">1</xref>. A total of 7,102 articles have been published since then, on various subjects related to clinical, invasive, surgical cardiology, as well as diagnostic methods.</p>
    <p>We performed a systematic review of articles published in ABC during the period from January 2001 to June 2015 containing the MeSH term &#8220;cardiovascular risk factors&#8221;. Of the 3,087 titles of articles published in the period, 116 articles were identified. The abstracts of these articles were reviewed, and 107 articles, in which assessment of cardiovascular risk factors was the main topic, were included. The sample was composed by 102 original articles, 3 letters and 2 editorials. When specific topics were assessed, &#8220;cardiovascular factor or cardiovascular risk&#8221; was generally described in 88 articles, 6 articles focused on quality of life and cardiovascular risk factor, 4 articles described epidemiological factors and risk factors, 5 articles specifically explored systemic arterial hypertension and risk factors, 3 were guidelines on risk factors and 1 articles related risk factor with public health. However, when we focused only on isolated risk factors, there has been a clear preponderance of articles involving arterial hypertension (18% between 2010 and 2013) and a trend of increase in the number of articles on diabetes (approximately 10%) published on ABC in the last years.</p>
    <p>The average annual number of articles focused on cardiovascular risk factors published on ABC has been consistent in the last 15 years, with a mean of 3.47% of total publications per year, and no significant differences between years (p = 0.195) (<xref ref-type="table" rid="t01">Table 1</xref>). Considering SciELO database and the number of accesses to the articles selected between January 2014 and June 2015, the 2 most accessed articles were cross-sectional studies on metabolic syndrome and systemic arterial hypertension (<xref ref-type="table" rid="t02">Table 2</xref>)<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B02">2</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B03">3</xref>.</p>
    <table-wrap id="t01">
      <label>Table 1</label>
      <caption>
        <title>Total of publications on cardiovascular risk factors between 2001 and 2015 identified by search of MeSH term and revision of the articles&#8217; title and abstract</title>
      </caption>
      <table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
        <thead>
          <tr>
            <th align="center">Year</th>
            <th align="center">N</th>
            <th align="center">N-Reviewed</th>
            <th align="center">% N-Reviewed/N</th>
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2001</td>
            <td align="center">134</td>
            <td align="center">4</td>
            <td align="center">2.98%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2002</td>
            <td align="center">168</td>
            <td align="center">3</td>
            <td align="center">1.78%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2003</td>
            <td align="center">160</td>
            <td align="center">5</td>
            <td align="center">3.12%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2004</td>
            <td align="center">184</td>
            <td align="center">2</td>
            <td align="center">1.08%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2005</td>
            <td align="center">224</td>
            <td align="center">8</td>
            <td align="center">3.57%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2006</td>
            <td align="center">274</td>
            <td align="center">11</td>
            <td align="center">4.05%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2007</td>
            <td align="center">244</td>
            <td align="center">9</td>
            <td align="center">3.68%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2008</td>
            <td align="center">172</td>
            <td align="center">5</td>
            <td align="center">2.9%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2009</td>
            <td align="center">259</td>
            <td align="center">11</td>
            <td align="center">4.24%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2010</td>
            <td align="center">331</td>
            <td align="center">18</td>
            <td align="center">5.43%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2011</td>
            <td align="center">235</td>
            <td align="center">5</td>
            <td align="center">2.12%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2012</td>
            <td align="center">209</td>
            <td align="center">4</td>
            <td align="center">1.91%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2013</td>
            <td align="center">236</td>
            <td align="center">10</td>
            <td align="center">4.23%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2014</td>
            <td align="center">227</td>
            <td align="center">9</td>
            <td align="center">3.96%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">2015</td>
            <td align="center">30</td>
            <td align="center">3</td>
            <td align="center">10%</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">Total</td>
            <td align="center">3087</td>
            <td align="center">107</td>
            <td align="center">3.47%</td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>
      <table-wrap-foot>
        <fn id="TFN01">
          <p>N: Number of articles published; N-Reviewed: Articles selected from the review of abstracts; % N-Reviewed/N: % of articles on cardiovascular risk factors in relation to total number of articles published.</p>
        </fn>
      </table-wrap-foot>
    </table-wrap>
    <table-wrap id="t02">
      <label>Table 2</label>
      <caption>
        <title>List of articles selected in 2014 and 2015 and the number of accesses accroding to SciELO database (date of access 06/23/15)</title>
      </caption>
      <table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
        <thead>
          <tr>
            <th align="left">Access</th>
            <th align="center">Year</th>
            <th align="center">Vol/N/Pags</th>
            <th align="center">Article title</th>
            <th align="center">Design</th>
            <th align="center">Country</th>
            <th align="center">Study City</th>
          </tr>
        </thead>
        <tbody>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">100</td>
            <td align="center">2014</td>
            <td align="center">V 102, n 4, p 345-354</td>
            <td align="center">Dietary interventions and blood pressure In Latin America: systematic review and meta-analysis</td>
            <td align="center">SR</td>
            <td align="center">Curitiba</td>
            <td align="center">Brazil</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">280</td>
            <td align="center">2014</td>
            <td align="center">V 102,n 4, p 374-382</td>
            <td align="center">Alimentary habits, physical activity, and Framingham global risk score in metabolic syndrome</td>
            <td align="center">CSS</td>
            <td align="center">Porto Alegre</td>
            <td align="center">Brazil</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">119</td>
            <td align="center">2014</td>
            <td align="center">V 103,n 21; p 1-31</td>
            <td align="center">South American gruidelines for cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation</td>
            <td align="center">G</td>
            <td align="center">&#8211;</td>
            <td align="center">Brazil</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">168</td>
            <td align="center">2014</td>
            <td align="center">V 103,n 6, p 493-501</td>
            <td align="center">Comparison of cardiovascular risk factors in different areas of health care over a 20-year period</td>
            <td align="center">CS</td>
            <td align="center">Goi&#226;nia</td>
            <td align="center">Brazil</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">107</td>
            <td align="center">2014</td>
            <td align="center">V 102,n 5, p 473-480</td>
            <td align="center">Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in hemodialysis patients &#8211; The CORDIAL study</td>
            <td align="center">CSS</td>
            <td align="center">Porto Alegre</td>
            <td align="center">Brazil</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">235</td>
            <td align="center">2014</td>
            <td align="center">V 102,n 6, p 571-578</td>
            <td align="center">Blood pressure control In hypertensive patients in the &#8220;Hiperdia Program&#8221;: a territory-based study</td>
            <td align="center">CSS</td>
            <td align="center">Porto Alegre</td>
            <td align="center">Brazil</td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
            <td align="center">151</td>
            <td align="center">2014</td>
            <td align="center">V 102,n 5, p 420-431</td>
            <td align="center">l cardiovascular prevention guideline of the BSC &#8211; executive summary</td>
            <td align="center">D</td>
            <td align="center">&#8211;</td>
            <td align="center">Brazil</td>
          </tr>
        </tbody>
      </table>
      <table-wrap-foot>
        <fn id="TFN02">
          <p>CSS: Cross-sectional study; G: Guidelines; CS: cohort study; SR: Systematic review; BSC: Brazilian Society of Cardiology</p>
        </fn>
      </table-wrap-foot>
    </table-wrap>
    <p>In 2005, an ABC editorial discussed the cardiovascular risk factors in Brazil and the perspective of cardiovascular epidemiology in the next 50 years<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B04">4</xref>. National data published at that time (one study conducted in S&#227;o Paulo metropolitan region and the AFIRMAR study)<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B05">5</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B06">6</xref>, and a study with students about life style and cardiovascular disease<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B07">7</xref>revealed that predictive factors of atherosclerosis in Brazil were not different from those in Europe and North America<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B08">8</xref>. In addition, there is a relationship between early mortality caused by cardiovascular disease and social inequality<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B09">9</xref>. However, ten years after publication of this editorial, which clarified the definitions of cardiovascular risks in Brazil, most studies about this topic published on ABC have had an observational design. This trend may be found in a review of articles published on ABC in the last 60 years<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref>. Therefore, the current scenario is of consolidation and confirmation of traditional risk factors for cardiovascular events, associated with results of mortality rates for ischemic and cerebrovascular disease in different regions of the country.</p>
    <p>Therefore, the challenge of cardiovascular epidemiology and of academic publishing in the next years is to promote the development of interventional studies. This approach, in line with primary and secondary prevention measures, may contribute to changes in the epidemiology of cardiovascular risks in Brazil in the coming years. Thus, the role of the leading journal in cardiology in Brazil is to support solid evidence that serve as the basis for practices in our society.</p>
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          <subject>Editorial</subject>
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        <article-title>Fatores de Risco Cardiovascular: Do Conhecimento Consolidado &#224; Chamada para A&#231;&#227;o</article-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Grezzana</surname>
            <given-names>Guilherme Brasil</given-names>
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          <name>
            <surname>Pellanda</surname>
            <given-names>Lucia Campos</given-names>
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        <institution content-type="orgname">Funda&#231;&#227;o Universit&#225;ria de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul</institution>
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          <named-content content-type="city">Porto Alegre</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">RS</named-content>
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        <country country="BR">Brasil</country>
        <institution content-type="original">Funda&#231;&#227;o Universit&#225;ria de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul &#8211; ICFUC, Porto Alegre, RS &#8211; Brasil</institution>
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          <named-content content-type="city">Porto Alegre</named-content>
          <named-content content-type="state">RS</named-content>
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        <country country="BR">Brasil</country>
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        <corresp id="c02"><bold>Correspond&#234;ncia: Lucia Campos Pellanda</bold>, Av. Princesa Isabel, 370, Santana CEP 90620-000. Porto Alegre, RS &#8211; Brasil E-mail:   <email>lupellanda@gmail.com</email></corresp>
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        <kwd>Preven&#231;&#227;o</kwd>
        <kwd>Estudos Epidemiol&#243;gicos</kwd>
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      <p>A partir da d&#233;cada de 1950, o principal peri&#243;dico da cardiologia brasileira, os Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia (ABC), passou a estar indexado no Medline<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B01">1</xref>. Desde ent&#227;o, um total de 7102 publica&#231;&#245;es foram vinculadas nas suas edi&#231;&#245;es abordando diversos temas da cardiologia cl&#237;nica, invasiva e cir&#250;rgica, e m&#233;todos diagn&#243;sticos.</p>
      <p>Realizamos uma revis&#227;o de artigos publicados nos ABC no per&#237;odo de janeiro de 2001 a junho de 2015 que abordaram temas norteando o termo MeSH &#8220;Fatores de risco cardiovascular&#8221;. Dos 3087 t&#237;tulos de artigos publicados no per&#237;odo, 116 artigos com o termo foram identificados. Desses, foram avaliados os <italic>abstracts</italic>, restando 107 artigos cujo tema central era a avalia&#231;&#227;o de fatores de risco cardiovascular. A amostra era composta por 102 artigos originais, 3 cartas e dois editoriais. Quando avaliado por tema espec&#237;fico, 88 artigos abordaram de forma generalizada &#8220;fator ou risco cardiovascular&#8221; e suas diversas nuances, 6 artigos versaram sobre qualidade de vida e fator de risco (FR) cardiovascular, 4 citaram aspectos epidemiol&#243;gicos e FR, 5 artigos abordaram especificamente hipertens&#227;o arterial sist&#234;mica e FR, 3 constitu&#237;ram diretrizes sobre FR e 1 relacionou FR com sa&#250;de p&#250;blica. Contudo, se focarmos somente FRs isolados, h&#225; uma n&#237;tida preval&#234;ncia de artigos envolvendo hipertens&#227;o arterial (18% entre 2010 e 2013) e uma tend&#234;ncia de aumento de artigos sobre diabetes (aproximadamente 10%) publicados nos ABC nos &#250;ltimos anos.</p>
      <p>Nos &#250;ltimos 15 anos, as m&#233;dias anuais de artigos abordando FRs cardiovasculares como tema central, publicados nos ABC, mantiveram-se homog&#234;neas sem diferen&#231;as significativas (p = 0,195) entre os anos, sendo de 3,47% em rela&#231;&#227;o ao total de artigos publicados (<xref ref-type="table" rid="t03">Tabela 1</xref>). Considerando a base de dados do SciELO e o n&#250;mero de acessos aos artigos selecionados entre janeiro de 2014 a junho de 2015, os dois artigos que obtiveram o maior n&#250;mero de buscas foram dois estudos transversais abordando os temas de s&#237;ndrome metab&#243;lica e hipertens&#227;o arterial sist&#234;mica (<xref ref-type="table" rid="t04">Tabela 2</xref>)<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B02">2</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B03">3</xref>.</p>
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        <label>Tabela 1</label>
        <caption>
          <title>Total de publica&#231;&#245;es sobre o tema fatores de risco cardiovascular entre 2001 e 2015 identificadas por busca de termo MeSH e revis&#227;o do t&#237;tulo e resumo dos artigos</title>
        </caption>
        <table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
          <thead>
            <tr>
              <th align="left">Ano</th>
              <th align="center">N</th>
              <th align="center">N-Revisado</th>
              <th align="center">% N-Revisado/N</th>
            </tr>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2001</td>
              <td align="center">134</td>
              <td align="center">4</td>
              <td align="center">2,98%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2002</td>
              <td align="center">168</td>
              <td align="center">3</td>
              <td align="center">1,78%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2003</td>
              <td align="center">160</td>
              <td align="center">5</td>
              <td align="center">3,12%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2004</td>
              <td align="center">184</td>
              <td align="center">2</td>
              <td align="center">1,08%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2005</td>
              <td align="center">224</td>
              <td align="center">8</td>
              <td align="center">3,57%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2006</td>
              <td align="center">274</td>
              <td align="center">11</td>
              <td align="center">4,05%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2007</td>
              <td align="center">244</td>
              <td align="center">9</td>
              <td align="center">3,68%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2008</td>
              <td align="center">172</td>
              <td align="center">5</td>
              <td align="center">2,9%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2009</td>
              <td align="center">259</td>
              <td align="center">11</td>
              <td align="center">4,24%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2010</td>
              <td align="center">331</td>
              <td align="center">18</td>
              <td align="center">5,43%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2011</td>
              <td align="center">235</td>
              <td align="center">5</td>
              <td align="center">2,12%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2012</td>
              <td align="center">209</td>
              <td align="center">4</td>
              <td align="center">1,91%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2013</td>
              <td align="center">236</td>
              <td align="center">10</td>
              <td align="center">4,23%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2014</td>
              <td align="center">227</td>
              <td align="center">9</td>
              <td align="center">3,96%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">2015</td>
              <td align="center">30</td>
              <td align="center">3</td>
              <td align="center">10%</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">Total</td>
              <td align="center">3087</td>
              <td align="center">107</td>
              <td align="center">3,47%</td>
            </tr>
          </tbody>
        </table>
        <table-wrap-foot>
          <fn id="TFN03">
            <p>N: N&#250;mero de artigos publicados; N-Revisado: Artigo selecionado a partir da revis&#227;o de seu abstract; % N-Revisado/N: % de artigos com temas relacionados a fatores de risco cardiovascular em rela&#231;&#227;o ao n&#250;mero total de artigos publicados.</p>
          </fn>
        </table-wrap-foot>
      </table-wrap>
      <table-wrap id="t04">
        <label>Tabela 2</label>
        <caption>
          <title>Rela&#231;&#227;o dos artigos selecionados nos anos de 2015 e 2014 e o n&#250;mero de acessos segundo a base de dados do SciELO (data de acesso: 23/06/15)</title>
        </caption>
        <table frame="hsides" rules="groups">
          <thead>
            <tr>
              <th align="left">N Acessos</th>
              <th align="center">Ano</th>
              <th align="center">Vol/N/Pags</th>
              <th align="center">T&#237;tulo do artigo</th>
              <th align="center">Desenho</th>
              <th align="center">Cidade</th>
              <th align="center">Pa&#237;s do estudo</th>
            </tr>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">100</td>
              <td align="center">2014</td>
              <td align="center">V 102, n 4, p 345-354</td>
              <td align="center">Interven&#231;&#245;es na dieta e press&#227;o arterial na Am&#233;rica Latina: revis&#227;o sistem&#225;tica e metan&#225;lise</td>
              <td align="center">RS</td>
              <td align="center">Curitiba</td>
              <td align="center">Brasil</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">280</td>
              <td align="center">2014</td>
              <td align="center">V 102,n 4, p 374-382</td>
              <td align="center">H&#225;bitos alimentares, atividade f&#237;sica e escores de risco global de Framingham na s&#237;ndrome metab&#243;lica</td>
              <td align="center">ET</td>
              <td align="center">Porto Alegre</td>
              <td align="center">Brasil</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">119</td>
              <td align="center">2014</td>
              <td align="center">V 103,n 21; p 1-31</td>
              <td align="center">Diretriz sul americana de preven&#231;&#227;o e reabilita&#231;&#227;o cardiovascular</td>
              <td align="center">D</td>
              <td align="center">&#8211;</td>
              <td align="center">Brasil</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">168</td>
              <td align="center">2014</td>
              <td align="center">V 103,n 6, p 493-501</td>
              <td align="center">Compara&#231;&#227;o entre fatores de risco cardiovascular em diferentes &#225;reas da sa&#250;de num intervalo de 20 anos</td>
              <td align="center">EC</td>
              <td align="center">Goi&#226;nia</td>
              <td align="center">Brasil</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">107</td>
              <td align="center">2014</td>
              <td align="center">V 102,n 5, p 473-480</td>
              <td align="center">Preval&#234;ncia de fatores de risco cardiovascular em pacientes em hemodi&#225;lise &#8211; o estudo CORDIAL</td>
              <td align="center">ET</td>
              <td align="center">Porto Alegre</td>
              <td align="center">Brasil</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">235</td>
              <td align="center">2014</td>
              <td align="center">V 102,n 6, p 571-578</td>
              <td align="center">Controle da press&#227;o arterial em hipertensos do Programa Hiperdia: estudo de base territorial</td>
              <td align="center">ET</td>
              <td align="center">Porto Alegre</td>
              <td align="center">Brasil</td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td align="left">151</td>
              <td align="center">2014</td>
              <td align="center">V 102,n 5, p 420-431</td>
              <td align="center">l Diretriz de preven&#231;&#227;o cardiovascular da SBC &#8211; Resumo executivo</td>
              <td align="center">D</td>
              <td align="center">&#8211;</td>
              <td align="center">Brasil</td>
            </tr>
          </tbody>
        </table>
        <table-wrap-foot>
          <fn id="TFN04">
            <p>ET: Estudo transversal; EC: Estudo coorte; D: Diretriz; RS: Revis&#227;o Sistem&#225;tica; SBC: Sociedade Brasileira de Cardiologia.</p>
          </fn>
        </table-wrap-foot>
      </table-wrap>
      <p>No ano de 2005, um editorial publicado nos ABC abordou a tem&#225;tica dos FRs cardiovasculares no Brasil e a perspectiva da epidemiologia cardiovascular nos vindouros 50 anos<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B04">4</xref>. Dados nacionais publicados na &#233;poca (estudo conduzido na regi&#227;o metropolitana de S&#227;o Paulo e o estudo AFIRMAR)<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B05">5</xref><sup>,</sup><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B06">6</xref>, e um estudo com popula&#231;&#227;o escolar sobre estilo de vida e doen&#231;a cardiovascular<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B07">7</xref> permitiram observar que os fatores preditores para a doen&#231;a ateroscler&#243;tica no Brasil n&#227;o diferiam dos encontrados na Europa e Am&#233;rica do Norte<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B08">8</xref>. Adicionalmente, h&#225; uma estabelecida rela&#231;&#227;o entre mortalidade precoce por causas cardiovasculares e desigualdade social<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B09">9</xref>. Contudo, ap&#243;s uma d&#233;cada da publica&#231;&#227;o desse editorial com esclarecimento quanto &#224; defini&#231;&#227;o dos FRs cardiovasculares no Brasil, a maioria das publica&#231;&#245;es nos ABC que abordaram o tema manteve desenhos observacionais. Essa tend&#234;ncia pode ser observada em uma revis&#227;o de publica&#231;&#245;es nos ABC nos &#250;ltimos 60 anos<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">10</xref>. Desta forma, o cen&#225;rio atual &#233; de consolida&#231;&#227;o e confirma&#231;&#227;o do conhecimento dos FRs tradicionais para eventos cardiovasculares, associado a resultados de coeficientes de mortalidade por doen&#231;a isqu&#234;mica e cerebrovascular em diferentes regi&#245;es do pa&#237;s.</p>
      <p>Assim, o desafio para a epidemiologia cardiovascular e a publica&#231;&#227;o acad&#234;mica nos pr&#243;ximos anos &#233; fomentar estudos de interven&#231;&#227;o. Essa abordagem, em conson&#226;ncia com medidas de preven&#231;&#227;o prim&#225;ria e secund&#225;ria, poder&#225; contribuir para a modifica&#231;&#227;o dos dados epidemiol&#243;gicos do risco cardiovascular no Brasil nos pr&#243;ximos anos. O papel da principal revista de cardiologia no pa&#237;s &#233;, assim, o de contribuir com a publica&#231;&#227;o de evid&#234;ncias s&#243;lidas que possam embasar pr&#225;ticas de mudan&#231;as em nosso meio.</p>
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