作者
George S Stergiou, Angeliki Ntineri, Ariadni Menti, Natasa Kalpourtzi, Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Evangelos N Liberopoulos, Loukianos Rallidis, Dimitris Richter, Magda Gavana, Apostolos Vantarakis, Grigoris Chlouverakis, Christos Hajichristodoulou, Grigoris Trypsianis, Paraskevi V Voulgari, Yannis Alamanos, Argiro Karakosta, Giota Touloumi
发表日期
2023/1/1
期刊
Hellenic Journal of Cardiology
卷号
69
页码范围
1-8
出版商
Elsevier
简介
Background
Greece was recently reclassified from low- to medium-risk country in terms of cardiovascular disease, with 27% of cardiovascular deaths attributed to hypercholesterolemia. EMENO nationwide survey (2013-2016) assessed the epidemiology of dyslipidemia in the general population in Greece.
Methods
A random sample of adults was drawn by multistage stratified random sampling based on 2011 census. Standardized questionnaires and blood tests for total cholesterol (TC), low-density (LDL-C), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglycerides were used. Hypercholesterolemia was defined as TC ≥ 240/200 mg/dL and/or the use of lipid-lowering drugs, hyper-LDL-cholesterolemia as LDL-C ≥160/130/100 mg/dL and/or the use of drugs, hypo-HDL-cholesterolemia as HDL-C <40 mg/dL, and hypertriglyceridemia as triglycerides ≥150 mg/dL. Weighted analysis was applied to adjust for …
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