title: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus and abnormal lipid status among Croatian hospitalized coronary heart disease patients.
abstract: The aim of this article was to investigate the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and abnormal lipid status with selected anthropometric variables in a sample of hospitalized coronary heart disease (CHD) patients in Croatia (N = 1,298). Prevalence of diabetes mellitus was 31.6% (statistically significantly more frequent in women, 35.7% vs. 30.0%), while prevalences of increased total cholesterol were 72.0%, decreased HDL-cholesterol 42.6% (statistically significantly more frequent in women, 50.2% vs. 39.6%), increased LDL-cholesterol 72.3% and increased triglycerides 51.5%. Reported data on prevalences of diabetes mellitus can be somewhat reassuring (a decrease in its prevalence compared to data from 2006, but they still signal a situation which is a lot worse than in 2002 and 2003); the trend of rising prevalences of dyslipidaemic cardiovascular risk factors must be a cause for an alarm, furthermore as today's preventive and treatment measures in cardiology, both primary and secondary, are strongly focused on dyslipidaemias.
authors.affiliation: University of Zagreb, Dubrava University Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Zagreb, Croatia. vrazic@gmail.com
authors.forename: Hrvoje
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Vrazić
authors.forename: Tomo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lucijanić
authors.forename: Jozica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sikić
authors.forename: Ivana Rajcan
authors.initials: IR
authors.lastname: Spoljarić
authors.forename: Stojan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Polić
authors.forename: Divo
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ljubicić
authors.forename: Katarina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matić
authors.forename: Tonći
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bozin
authors.forename: Irena
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Subjak
authors.forename: Mijo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bergovec
mesh_terms: D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D017523:Croatia / Q000453:epidemiology; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000150:complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008297:Male