Prevalence of Dyslipidemia in Children with Congenital Heart Disease
| Autor: | Gabriela Fuenmayor, Ana Carolina Costa Redondo, Karen Saori Shiraishi, Ieda Biscegli Jatene, Patrícia Figueiredo Elias, Rogério Souza |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Heart Defects
Congenital Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Heart disease Adolescent Population Nutritional Status Brief Communication Risk Factors medicine Humans Dyslipidemia / Epidemiology Obesity education Child Dyslipidemias education.field_of_study medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Congenital Heart Disease Mean age Nutritional status Cholesterol LDL medicine.disease Physical therapy Referral center Female Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine business Lipid profile Dyslipidemia Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia |
| ISSN: | 1678-4170 0066-782X |
| Popis: | Dyslipidemia is one of the main risk factors associated with cardiovascular diseases. Few data on the impacts of congenital heart diseases are available with regard to the prevalence of dyslipidemia in children. Our study evaluated the lipid profile in children with congenital heart disease at a referral center. From January 2011 to July 2012, 52 pediatric patients had their lipid, metabolic and clinical profiles traced. The mean age was 10.4 ± 2.8 years and male/female rate of 1.38:1. Our population had 53.8% patients with high levels of total cholesterol and 13.4% (CI 95 %, from 6.6 to 25.2%) of them also presenting LDL levels ≥ 130 mg/dL, which characterizes dyslipidemia. The group of dyslipidemic patients presented only two obese individuals. Our data show that the presence of congenital heart disease does not lead to higher risk associated with the prevalence of dyslipidemia. Therefore, the screening of this specific population should follow the regular pediatric guidelines, which are also independent of the nutritional status of the children tested. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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