Awareness of cardiovascular disease, its risk factors, and its association with attendance at outpatient clinics in acute coronary syndrome patients

Our study showed significant differences between medical history data received from patients and data obtained from objective examination for several cardiovascular disease risk factors in patients with ACS. Awareness of dyslipidemia was very low. It increased dramatically with increasing attendance. At the same time, there was only a slight increase in awareness of arterial hypertension with increase of attendance.