Cardiovascular disease

Among the risk factors for cardiovascular disease, hypertension is the leading factor since 13% of deaths overall are attributed to it. Given the considerable weight of this risk factor from the standpoint of public health, it is necessary that population-based studies be conducted to measure its prevalence and evolution over time. In Québec, the universal healthcare system is administered, among other things, by means of health administrative databases that are constantly being updated and…

Initial observational studies presented the Inuit as a population particularly protected against cardiovascular diseases (CVD), the plague of developed countries. However, because of the abandonment of traditional lifestyles, and the high prevalence of some risk factors (such as smoking 73% and obesity 19%), conclusions from the 1992 Santé Québec health survey of the Inuit population from Nunavik anticipated an increase in CVD. Twelve years later, the Nunavik Inuit Health Survey 2004…

The main objective of this report is to enable decision-makers in Montréal clinical and health administration settings be better informed of health service utilisation by people with heart failure who are living in their territories. The report on heart failure is part of the « Monitorage interprétatif » project conducted by the Équipe Santé des populations et services de santé (ESPSS), a joint team of the Direction de santé publique de Montréal and Institut national de santé publique du…