TY - JOUR
T1 - The prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and cardiovascular disease among primary care patients in Poland
T2 - results from the LIPIDOGRAM2015 study
AU - Jóźwiak, Jacek J.
AU - Studziński, Krzysztof
AU - Tomasik, Tomasz
AU - Windak, Adam
AU - Mastej, Mirosław
AU - Catapano, Alberico L.
AU - Ray, Kausik K.
AU - Mikhailidis, Dimitri P.
AU - Toth, Peter P.
AU - Howard, George
AU - Lip, Gregory Y. H.
AU - Tomaszewski, Maciej
AU - Charchar, Fadi J.
AU - Sattar, Naveed
AU - Williams, Bryan
AU - MacDonald, Thomas M.
AU - Nowak, Dariusz
AU - Skowron, Łukasz
AU - Kasperczyk, Sławomir
AU - Banach, Maciej
N1 - The work of ALC has beensupported by Ministry of Health - Ricerca Corrente - IRCCS Multi-Medica, PRIN 2017H5F943 and ERANET ER-2017-2364981
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Background and aim: To estimate the prevalence of cardiovascular (CV) disease and CV risk factors among Polish patients.Methods: A nationwide cross-sectional study, LIPIDOGRAM2015, was carried out in Poland in the 4th quarter of 2015 and 1st and 2nd quarters of 2016; 438 primary care physicians enrolled 13,724 adult patients that sought medical care in primary health care practices.Results: Nearly 19% of men and approximately 12% of women had cardiovascular disease (CVD). Over 60% of the recruited patients had hypertension (HTN), >80% had dyslipidaemia and <15% of patients were diagnosed with diabetes (DM). All of these disorders were more frequent in men. In 80% of patients the waist circumference exceed norm for the European population. Less than half of the patients were current smokers or had smoked in the past. Patients with CVD had significantly higher blood pressure and glucose levels but lower low density lipoprotein-cholesterol level.Conclusions: The prevalence of CVD and CV risk factors among patients in Poland is high. CVD is more common in men than in women. The most common CV risk factors are excess waist circumference, dyslipidaemia and HTN. Family physicians should conduct activities to prevent, diagnose early and treat CVD in the primary health care population.
AB - Background and aim: To estimate the prevalence of cardiovascular (CV) disease and CV risk factors among Polish patients.Methods: A nationwide cross-sectional study, LIPIDOGRAM2015, was carried out in Poland in the 4th quarter of 2015 and 1st and 2nd quarters of 2016; 438 primary care physicians enrolled 13,724 adult patients that sought medical care in primary health care practices.Results: Nearly 19% of men and approximately 12% of women had cardiovascular disease (CVD). Over 60% of the recruited patients had hypertension (HTN), >80% had dyslipidaemia and <15% of patients were diagnosed with diabetes (DM). All of these disorders were more frequent in men. In 80% of patients the waist circumference exceed norm for the European population. Less than half of the patients were current smokers or had smoked in the past. Patients with CVD had significantly higher blood pressure and glucose levels but lower low density lipoprotein-cholesterol level.Conclusions: The prevalence of CVD and CV risk factors among patients in Poland is high. CVD is more common in men than in women. The most common CV risk factors are excess waist circumference, dyslipidaemia and HTN. Family physicians should conduct activities to prevent, diagnose early and treat CVD in the primary health care population.
KW - Cardiovascular disease
KW - Cardiovascular risk factors
KW - Hypertension
KW - Hypercholesterolaemia
KW - Diabetes mellitus
KW - Obesity
KW - Primary health care
KW - Poland
U2 - 10.1016/j.atherosclerosissup.2021.01.004
DO - 10.1016/j.atherosclerosissup.2021.01.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 33589219
SN - 1567-5688
VL - 42
SP - e15-e24
JO - Atherosclerosis Supplements
JF - Atherosclerosis Supplements
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