A high proportion of dyslipidemic middle-aged adults in Lithuania have multiple additional cardiovascular risk factors, highlighting the need for comprehensive risk management to reduce CVD burden.
Supports multifactorial risk assessment in dyslipidemic adults; leaves open optimal prevention strategies in this population.
Almost two thirds of dyslipidemic middle-aged Lithuanian adults without overt cardiovascular disease had three or more other CVD risk factors, which synergistically increase absolute risk of CVD. The average 10-year risk of CVD death in patients with dyslipidemia was 1.95%. The importance of managing dyslipidemia as well as other risk factors in order to reduce burden of cardiovascular disease in Lithuania is evident.
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