Achievement of the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol goal among patients with dyslipidemia in South Korea

Autor: Siin Kim, Pratik P. Rane, Yi Qian, Sola Han, Hae Sun Suh, Zhongyun Zhao
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
Health Screening
Epidemiology
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Overweight
Logistic regression
Vascular Medicine
Biochemistry
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine and Health Sciences
Coronary Heart Disease
Public and Occupational Health
030212 general & internal medicine
Sex Characteristics
Multidisciplinary
Age Factors
Drugs
Middle Aged
Lipids
Cholesterol
Cardiovascular Diseases
Cohort
Medicine
Female
medicine.symptom
Research Article
Acute coronary syndrome
medicine.medical_specialty
Statin
medicine.drug_class
Science
Lipoproteins
Cardiology
Medication Adherence
03 medical and health sciences
Internal medicine
Republic of Korea
medicine
Humans
Aged
Dyslipidemias
Retrospective Studies
Pharmacology
business.industry
Statins
Biology and Life Sciences
Proteins
Retrospective cohort study
Cholesterol
LDL

medicine.disease
Logistic Models
Dyslipidemia
Metabolic Disorders
Medical Risk Factors
Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors
business
Body mass index
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 1, p e0228472 (2020)
ISSN: 1932-6203
Popis: Background It is important to achieve the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) goal recommended by clinical guidelines in managing the risk of cardiovascular (CV) events, however, the current management of LDL-C in actual clinical settings is suboptimal. We examined the LDL-C level among patients with dyslipidemia against the 2015 Korean guidelines, the crude rates of CV events based on LDL-C goal achievement, and the factors associated with LDL-C goal achievement. Methods This was a retrospective cohort study using the National Health Insurance Service–National Health Screening Cohort (NHIS-HEALS) database from 2006 to 2013. Patients who had a health examination with LDL-C measurement between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2011 were identified. Patients were required to have at least one diagnosis of dyslipidemia during the 1 year before the index date, defined as the first date of LDL-C measurement. The 2015 Korean guidelines were used to measure LDL-C goal achievement based on the CV risk level. Crude CV event rates were calculated for total and individual CV events as the number of events divided by person-years (PYs) during the follow-up period. CV events included acute coronary syndrome, ischemic stroke, peripheral artery disease, CV death, and all-cause death. Factors associated with LDL-C goal achievement were assessed using logistic regression. Results In the NHIS-HEALS database, 69,942 patients met the eligibility criteria: 36.7%, 22.5%, 20.1%, and 20.6% were among the very high-, high-, moderate-, and low-risk groups for the CV events, respectively, as defined by the 2015 Korean guidelines. Approximately half of the patients with dyslipidemia (47.6%) achieved their recommended LDL-C goal, but the achievement rates were substantially different across CV risk levels (17.6%, 47.2%, 66.9%, and 82.4% for very high-, high-, moderate-, and low-risk groups, respectively; P
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