Awareness, treatment, and control of dyslipidemia in rural South Africa: The HAALSI (Health and Aging in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa) study

Dyslipidemia is a primary driver for chronic cardiovascular conditions and there is no comprehensive literature about its management in South Africa. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of dyslipidemia in rural South Africa and how they are imp...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2017-10, Vol.12 (10), p.e0187347-e0187347
Hauptverfasser:	Reiger, Sheridan, Jardim, Thiago Veiga, Abrahams-Gessel, Shafika, Crowther, Nigel J, Wade, Alisha, Gomez-Olive, F Xavier, Salomon, Joshua, Tollman, Stephen, Gaziano, Thomas A
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abnormalities Acquired immune deficiency syndrome Adults Aged Aging AIDS Animals Anthropometry Awareness Biology and Life Sciences Blood pressure Body weight Cardiovascular diseases Cardiovascular system Care and treatment Censuses Cholesterol Complications and side effects Correlation analysis Councils Data collection Demographic aspects Dyslipidemia Dyslipidemias Dyslipidemias - prevention & control Dyslipidemias - therapy Epidemiology Health risks Health sciences HIV Hospitals Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Infant Laboratories Lipids Lipoproteins (low density) Longitudinal Studies Low density lipoprotein Medical research Medicine Medicine and Health Sciences Metabolic disorders Mice Middle Aged Multivariable control Older people Overweight Patient education People and places Population Prevention Public health Regression analysis Regression models Risk factors Risk management Rural Health Services Rural Population Socio-economic aspects Software upgrading South Africa Studies Triglycerides Womens health
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Zusammenfassung:	Dyslipidemia is a primary driver for chronic cardiovascular conditions and there is no comprehensive literature about its management in South Africa. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control of dyslipidemia in rural South Africa and how they are impacted by different behaviors and non-modifiable factors. To fulfill this objective we recruited for this cohort study adults aged ≥40 years residing in the Agincourt sub-district of Mpumalanga Province. Data collection included socioeconomic and clinical data, anthropometric measures, blood pressure (BP), HIV-status, point-of-care glucose and lipid levels. Framingham CVD Risk Score was ascribed to patients based upon categories for 10 year cardiovascular risk of low (
ISSN:	1932-6203 1932-6203
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pone.0187347