Showing 3 results for Serum Lipids
Ali Esmaeili Nadimi , Jafar Ahmadi,
Volume 3, Issue 2 (6-2004)
Abstract
Background: Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death in many nations. .Hyperlipidemia with elevated serum total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglyceride are known as cardiovascular risk factors. HDL cholesterol is considered to be a protective factor. Any effort for management of dyslipidemia directly reduces cardiovascular mortality and morbidity and cause increasing public health .The ignorance of the extent and impact of hyperlipidemia prompted us to determine the prevalence of hyperlipidemia in Rafsanjan urban population over than 20 years old.
Methods: In this study 247 men and 244 women were evaluated for serum total cholesterol , LDL cholesterol , HDLcholesterol and triglyceride levels.Blood samples were obtained at morning, after 14 hours fasting and for data analysis SPSS-11 soft ware was used. Results: Mean age of subjects was 38.35±13.14 years.High cholesterol level was present in 20.6%, LDL levels were high in 10.8% , 5.7% had elevated level of triglyceride and 8.4% of participants had low HDL cholesterol. Total cholesterol , LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels were significantly increased by age and HDL levels were also decreased by age.
Conclusion:According to our finding about 29% of studied population had at least one lipid abnormality and this important finding showed very high prevalence of dyslipidemia and requires specific attention and planning.
Farzad Hadaegh, Hadi Harati, Fereidoun Azizi,
Volume 4, Issue 3 (5-2005)
Abstract
Background: a variety of studies have noted seasonal variation in blood lipid levels, yet the mechanism for this phenomenon has not been clear. This leads to significant difference in prevalence of lipid disorders in different seasons.
Methods: A cross sectional study conducted on 6894 individuals (2890 men and 4004 women) aged 20-64 years who participated in the 1st phase of Tehran Lipid and Glucose study from March 1999 to September 2001. The mean level of plasma lipid values was compared between seasons by ANCOVA after adjustment for age, physical activity, smoking, BMI and waist-to-hip ratio. The sex specific prevalence of lipid disorders in summer and winter was calculated.
Results: 58% of participants were women. The mean age of men and women was 38.3±11.3 and 39.4±11.6 respectively (P=0.13). There was a significant seasonal variation in serum total cholesterol, LDL-C and HDL-C in men (P<0.05) with a peak in winter and a trough in summer (P<0.05). In women, only triglyceride levels showed significant seasonal variation characterized by increase in summer and decrease in winter (P<0.05). In men, there was 26.2% increase in prevalence of hypercholesterolemia (>240 mg/dl) in winter compared to summer (P<0.05). The corresponding increase in level of high risk LDL-C (≥160 mg/dl) was 26.7% and 24.9 % in men and women respectively (P<0.05). There was 23.8% decrease in the prevalence of hypertriglyceridemia (>200 mg/dl) in winter compared to summer in women (P<0.001).
Conclusion: This study confirms seasonal variation in blood lipid levels and suggests greater amplitude in seasonal variability in men than women. On the other hand, the increase in the prevalence of high risk LDL-C in both genders in winter should be considered in patients screening and follow-up strategies.
Farzad Hadaegh, Hadi Harati, Arash Ghanbarian, Fereidoun Azizi,
Volume 4, Issue 4 (6-2005)
Abstract
Background: To evaluate the role of lipid markers including total cholesterol (TC), LDL-C and HDL-C vs. lipid indices (TC/HDL-C, LDL-C/HDL-C and non-HDL-C) as short term predictors of cardiovascular outcomes in adults over 30 years.
Methods: As a nested case and control study, there were 207 CVD events among participants of Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study (TLGS) documented during 3 years of follow-up. Those cases that were free of CVD at baseline (132 subjects) were matched to 264 controls for age and sex. In all subjects, demographic and clinical data including blood pressure and anthropometric measurements as well as serum lipids, fasting and 2-hour glucose were available from the database of the TLGS. We estimated the relative risk (RR) for each lipid parameter in a multiple stepwise regression model after adjustment for family history of premature CHD, smoking, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, fasting and 2-hour plasma glucose and waist-to-hip ratio.
Results: The RRs associated with an increase of ≈1 SD of independent lipid predictors in the multivariate model were as follow: total cholesterol (RR=1.6 [1.2-2.0], SD= 1.3 mmol/L), LDL-C (RR=1.5 [1.1-2.0], SD= 1 mmol/L), non-HDL-C (RR=1.6 [1.2-2.1], SD= 1.2 mmol/L) and cholesterol/HDL-C (RR= 1.5 [1.1-2.0], SD= 1.8). The comparing of these four independent variables with ROC curve analysis showed that there was no significant difference in their predictive power for cardiovascular outcome. There was no association between HDL-C, triglyceride and LDL-C/HDL-C and CVD outcome in multivariate analysis.
Conclusion: This study showed that TC, LDL-C, non-HDL-C and TC/HDL-C have similar predictive values for short term prediction of CVD outcome. It seems TC may be a reasonable choice for short term prediction of CVD outcome, because of lower cost.
