Year: 2005
Type: dissertation
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: This research is made a descriptive, cross - sectional study, to determine the prevalence of dyslipidemia at the University Clinic, during September 2003 to August 2004. The total number of patients was 564, where the prevalence of dyslipidemia, hypertriglyceridemia, hypercholesterolemia, low HDL, high LDL and a high total cholesterol /HDL ratio was studied. The prevalence of hypercolesterolemia was 10.46%, the prevalence of hypertriglycleridemia was 18.79%, the prevalence of low HDL was 41.31%, the prevalence of high LDL was 12.13%, the prevalence of an HDL/LDL ratio higher than 3.5 was 26% and the prevalence of high cholesterol / HDL ratio was 1.42%.
Author: Patricia Doring Torres
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1758179502