title: [Prevalence of dyslipidemia in outpatients of the Spanish health service: the HISPALIPID Study].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We intended to estimate the prevalence of dyslipidemia among patients attending outpatient clinics of the Spanish health service.
  
  
  METHODS
  HISPALIPID is a multicenter, cross-sectional study performed in 33,913 patients (55.7% women) with a mean age of 54.6 +/- 18.3 years attended in outpatient clinics across 15 of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain. 1,461 physicians (78.8% primary care physicians, and 21.2% specialists) participated in the study. Patients were considered having dyslipidemia if their doctor had established a previous diagnosis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A total of 8,256 patients (52.4% women, mean age 62.4 +/- 12.4 years) had been diagnosed with dyslipidemia, representing a global prevalence of 24.3% (CI95%: 23.8-24.8) (M: 26.2%; W:22.9%; P<0.001). The communities with the higher and lower prevalence were the Canary Islands (33.9%) and Cantabria (18.6%), respectively. About 87% dyslipemic patients presented an additional cardiovascular risk factor and 36.7% of dyslipemic patients had an associated cardiovascular disease.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The prevalence of dyslipidemia is high in patients attending outpatient clinics of the Spanish health service (one out of four patients). In addition, these patients are at a high cardiovascular risk.
authors.affiliation: Departamento Médico, AstraZeneca Farmacéutica Spain. Onofre.Vegazo@astrazeneca.com
authors.forename: Onofre
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Vegazo
authors.forename: Jose R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Banegas
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Civeira
authors.forename: Pedro L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Serrano Aisa
authors.forename: F Javier
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Jiménez
authors.forename: Emilio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Luengo
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D050171:Dyslipidemias / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients; D015995:Prevalence; D013030:Spain / Q000453:epidemiology