Naslov
The prevalence of diabetes mellitus and abnormal lipid status among Croatian hospitalized coronary heart disease patients

Autori
Vražić, Hrvoje ; Lucijanić, Tomo ; Šikić, Jozica ; Rajčan Špoljarić, Ivana ; Polić, Stojan ; Ljubičić, Đivo ; Matić, Katarina ; Božin, Tonči ; Šubjak, Irena ; Bergovec, Mijo

Izvornik
COLLEGIUM ANTROPOLOGICUM (0350-6134) 36 (2012), S1; 223-228

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
coronary heart disease ; type 2 diabetes mellitus ; total cholesterol ; LDL-cholesterol ; HDL-cholesterol ; triglycerides

Sažetak
The aim of this article was to investigate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and abnormal lipid status with selected anthropometric variables in a sample of hospitalized coronary heart disease (CHD) patients in Croatia (N=1, 298). Prevalence of diabetes mellitus was 31.6% (statistically significantly more frequent in women, 35.7% vs. 30.0%), while prevalences of increased total cholesterol were 72.0%, decreased HDL-cholesterol 42.6% (statistically significantly more frequent in women, 50.2% vs. 39.6%), increased LDL-cholesterol 72.3% and increased triglycerides 51.5%. Reported data on prevalences of diabetes mellitus can be somewhat reassuring (a decrease in its prevalence compared to data from 2006, but they still signal a situation which is a lot worse than in 2002 and 2003) ; the trend of rising prevalences of dyslipidaemic cardiovascular risk factors must be a cause for an alarm, furthermore as today’s preventive and treatment measures in cardiology, both primary and secondary, are strongly focused on dyslipidaemias.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Kliničke medicinske znanosti

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