Prevalence and Profiles of Dyslipidemia in Apparently Healthy Adult Gujarati Population
Journal Title: Healthline - Year 2015, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
[b]Introduction : [/b]Circulating lipids and lipoproteins are long being recognized as risk factors for developing cardiovascular diseases (CVD). [b]Objective : [/b]To evaluate the prevalence and profiles of dyslipidemia in young and asymptomatic Gujarati population. [b]Method : [/b]In this cross sectional study we had randomly selected 1440 individuals of the both the genders who were of 20- 40 years of age and disease free. Individuals having history of any medications for diabetes, hypertension and CVD were excluded from the study. The remaining healthy individuals underwent detained physical examinations and tests of lipid profiles.[b] Results :[/b] In the overall population, the prevalence of low HDL-C (36.53%) and high lipoprotein (a) (32.15%) were most common lipid abnormalities found. We have observed that except for lipoprotein (a) (28.4% Vs35.66%),the males were more dyslipidemic than females (p<0.001). Age-wise distribution showed that younger individuals (20-29 years) were having superior lipid profile as compared to their older counterparts (30-40 years) (p<0.001). In population having lipoprotein (a) abnormality (32.15%), the low HDL-C (33.7%) was highly prevalent. [b]Conclusion : [/b]Thus it is concluded that the young Gujarati population is highly susceptible to develop lipoprotein (a) and HDL-C abnormalities and this information could be used to design the preventive polices for future CVD events.
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Sibasis Sahoo, Tarun Madan, Kamal Sharma, Sharad Jain, Komal Shah, Yogini Kandre
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