Diseases of the circulatory system (DCS) are the leading cause in general death structure, remaining the most important medical and social problem. Therefore, the DCS prevention methodology needs to be improved.

OBJECTIVE

To assess the efficacy of DCS prevention through the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) to correct and control risk factors.

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Medical web-portal, WhatsApp messenger and Google Forms services were used.

RESULTS

The number of subjects equal 5051 (1663 men (32.9%), 3388 women (67.1%)) were studied. In patients with DCS, compared to ones without these pathology, the prevalence of smoking (17.9% and 25.7%, respectively), insufficient consumption of vegetables and fruit (53.5% and 59.7%) and alcohol abuse (38.1% and 45.3%) were revealed more rarely, but obesity (35.3% and 11.4%), systolic (60.2% and 17.5%) and diastolic (51.2% and 23.4%) arterial hypertension were identified more frequently, and overweight (24.2% and 22.5%), hypercholesterolemia (61.8% and 52.1%) and hyperglycemia (8.0% and 5.7%) were detected equally often. A total of 75% of patients with hypertensive disease were taking anti-hypertensive drugs, and 69.3% had arterial hypertension. A proportion of patients with DCS equal 63.0% were taking lipid-reducing medications and 61.7% had hypercholesterolemia. When using WhatsApp messenger, 17.6% of patients fully reviewed 11 presentations about healthy eating, 47.1% of subjects stopped viewing and 35.3% refused to view. There were fewer men than women (13.3% and 44.4%, respectively) among the latter. The refusal was not associated with education level, social status, age, blood pressure and body weight. The students had less bad results (81.5% and 35.0%), more good (16.7% and 60.0%) and the percentage of excellent did not change (1.9% and 5.0%) in the eating structure when viewing the presentations.

CONCLUSION

The comprehensive use of ICT is proposed to improve DCS prevention.