Prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of high low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in Brazil : baseline of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil)

• Autor(a) principal: Lotufo, Paulo Andrade
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Outros Autores: Santos Filho, Raul Dias dos, Figueiredo, Roberta M., Pereira, Alexandre da Costa, Mill, José Geraldo, Matos, Sheila Maria Alvim de, Fonseca, Maria de Jesus Mendes da, Almeida, Maria da Conceição Chagas de, Molina, Maria Del Carmen Bisi, Chor, Dora, Schmidt, Maria Inês, Ribeiro, Antônio Luiz Pinho, Duncan, Bruce Bartholow, Benseñor, Isabela Judith Martins
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/206726
• topic: Dislipidemias; Doença das coronárias; Epidemiologia; Fatores de risco; Doenças cardiovasculares; Dyslipidemia; Statins; Coronary heart disease; Epidemiology; Risk factors; Cardiovascular

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Dyslipidemia is a pivotal risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). The purpose of this study was to identify the profile of dyslipidemia in a Brazilian population, according to high low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C) levels. We used the classification of the 2004 update of National Cholesterol Education Program Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP-III). METHODS: Of the 15,105 men and women aged 35 to 74 years enrolled in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil), we included 14,648 subjects (97%). They had data to categorize them according to the NCEP-ATP-III criteria. We compared 4 categories: ‘‘0–1’’ risk factors, ‘‘2 or more risk factors’’, ‘‘CHD or CHD risk equivalent’’, and ‘‘CHD at very high risk’’. The sociodemographic determinants used were sex, age, ethnicity, income, education, and health insurance. Poisson regression was used to estimate the prevalence ratios for cholesterol (LDL-C), frequency, awareness, treatment, and control of high LDL-C.