2014
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacl.2013.12.011
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Prevalence of dyslipidemia and associated risk factors in Turkish adults

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“…This study also revealed that as BMI increases plasma LDL, total cholesterol, and triglyceride increases. These findings are similar to the report of [24] which showed that the prevalence of dyslipidemia increased with BMI in their study which was consistent with some previous studies. The lipid abnormalities in overweight and obesity is likely a consequence of insulin resistance [11].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 93%
“…This study also revealed that as BMI increases plasma LDL, total cholesterol, and triglyceride increases. These findings are similar to the report of [24] which showed that the prevalence of dyslipidemia increased with BMI in their study which was consistent with some previous studies. The lipid abnormalities in overweight and obesity is likely a consequence of insulin resistance [11].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 93%
“…This study showed sex was significantly associated with dyslipidemia with the prevalence in men was higher (67%) than in women (33%). Similar to this finding, a study in Shanghai China by Wu et al 8 showed that prevalence of dyslipidemia in men was higher (40.2%) than in women (33.8%). Our study also showed sex was significantly associated with triglycerides levels (p=0.02).…”
Section: Risk Factors Of Dyslipidemiasupporting
confidence: 82%
“…The effect of age on serum lipids is not certainly known. It may be related to hereditary characteristics, degenerative process, weight gain and progressive insulin resistance development (Bayram et al, 2014). Older age was also significantly associated with higher awareness of hypercholesterolemia in this study.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 55%
“…Those aged above 40 years had a greater prevalence of hypercholesterolemia. Other studies also revealed that older age was related to hypercholesterolemia (Ni et al, 2015;Bayram et al, 2014). The effect of age on serum lipids is not certainly known.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%