Prevalence and risk factors of dyslipidemia among hypertensive patients at Mukono General Hospital. Descriptive cross-sectional study.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51168/ce7k3519Keywords:
Prevalence, Risk Factors, Dyslipidemia, Hypertensive Patients, Mukono General HospitalAbstract
Background:
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and dyslipidemia is one of the major risk factors. Dyslipidemia may be classified as increased levels of serum total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), triglycerides (TG), and a decreased serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) concentration. The current study investigated the prevalence of dyslipidemia and associated risk factors among hypertensive patients at Mukono General Hospital.
Methodology:
A total of 184 participants enrolled in the study, 118 were women with a percentage of 64%, and 66 were men with a percentage of 36%. Results were analyzed at 95% confidence interval to check statistical significance from a chi-squared test.
Results:
As a result, the total prevalence of dyslipidemia was 65%, 45% more in women, with a p-value of 0.497. Further, the prevalence of dyslipidemia was higher in alcohol intake (58%) and those above 40 years (83%), with p values of 0.001 and <0.000. Thus, age and alcohol were the major predisposing factors to dyslipidemia in this study.
Additionally, the most prevalent type of dyslipidemia was triglycerides (37%) with p-value <0.000, followed by total cholesterol (36%) with p-value 0.314, LDL-C (33%) with p-value 0.152, and low HDL-C (28%) with p-value 0.003
Conclusions:
The total prevalence of dyslipidemias was 65%, with a higher prevalence of 45% from women and 20% from women. Furthermore, the prevalence of dyslipidemias was greatly affected by gender, alcohol intake, and age of the participants. However, FBG and BMI cannot be ruled out as factors not affecting the prevalence of dyslipidemias since a few of the participants were diabetic (around 18%) and obese (8%).
Recommendations:
It is also worth evaluating the prevalence of dyslipidemias and predisposing factors in school-going children because of the rampant rise in obesity among them.
