Key result
Study outlines methodology for assessing lipid abnormalities in hypertensive patients without reporting quantitative results.
Why the study?
Hypertension and dyslipidemia are key coronary risk factors, but the role of lipoprotein ratios in cardiovascular risk evaluation among hypertensive patients with different obesity patterns is not well described.
What is the pattern of abnormal serum lipids and lipoprotein ratios in Nigerian hypertensive patients?
Cross-Sectional (n=211)
What is the pattern of abnormal serum lipids and lipoprotein ratios in Nigerian hypertensive patients?
This study describes the pattern of lipid abnormalities and lipoprotein ratios in Nigerian hypertensive patients to optimize cardiovascular risk evaluation.
Lipid ratio patterns in hypertension warrant clinical caution; leaves open incremental predictive value beyond standard lipids in prospective studies.
Background: Hypertension is a major health problem worldwide.Its role, and other well-known coronary risk factors, especially dyslipidemia, in atherogenesis have informed estimation of cardiovascular risk.Hitherto, low density lipoprotein (LDL-C) and high density lipoprotein (HDL-C) are prominent in guidelines but attempts are being made to include the use of lipoprotein ratios to optimize the predictive capacity of lipid profile in risk evaluation.This study aimed to describe pattern of lipids abnormalities, including the common lipid ratios used in clinical practice and to understand if they differ more with abdominal obesity which compared with peripheral obesity in subjects with systemic hypertension.Materials and Methods: Two hundred and eleven new adult hypertensive patients were studied in a hospital-based cross-sectional study.Serum lipids were measured and lipoprotein ratios calculated.SPSS IBM 20 was used to analyze data.
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Ajayi et al. (2015) conducted a cross-sectional in Hypertension (n=211). Abdominal obesity vs. Peripheral obesity was evaluated on Pattern of lipid abnormalities and lipoprotein ratios. The abstract describes the methodology for assessing lipid abnormalities in 211 hypertensive patients but does not report any quantitative results.
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