Brazilian guidelines on prevention of cardiovascular disease in patients with diabetes: a position statement from the Brazilian Diabetes Society (SBD), the Brazilian Cardiology Society (SBC) and the Brazilian Endocrinology and Metabolism Society (SBEM)

Table 3 Stratifying risk factors (SF)

Age >49 years in men or >56 years in women [3]
Duration of diabetes greater than 10 years [4]^a
Family history of premature coronary heart disease [5]^b
Presence of IDF-defined Metabolic Syndrome [6]^c
Treated or untreated hypertension [7]
Current smoking [8]^d
Estimated glomerular filtration rate below 60 mL/min/1.73 m² [9]
Albuminuria above 30 mg/g of creatinine [10]
Cardiac autonomic neuropathy [11]
Diabetic retinopathy [12, 13]

^aValid for patients in whom the onset of diabetes occurred after 18 years of age
^bFamily history of premature coronary heart disease is defined as the presence of coronary events in first-degree relatives (father, mother, or siblings) when occurring before 55 years of age in men or before 65 years of age in women
^cThe IDF definition of Metabolic Syndrome consists of: (1) abdominal circumference >90 cm for men and >80 cm for women, plus; (2) triglycerides >150 mg/dL for both men and women; (3) HDL-c < 40 mg/dL in men and <50 mg/dL in women; (4) blood pressure ≥130/85 mmHg or treatment for hypertension; and (5) a fasting blood glucose ≥100 mg/dL
^dCurrent smoking is defined when the last smoking episode occurred less than 1 year before the time of stratification

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