title: Lipid Management in a Japanese Community:Attainment Rate of Target Set by the Japan Atherosclerosis Society Guidelines for the Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Diseases 2012.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) guidelines for the prevention of atherosclerotic diseases 2012 (JAS2012) proposed lipid management targets; however, less data is available regarding the attainment rates of each target in community-based settings. Therefore, we assessed the attainment rates of lipid management targets among subjects who underwent Japanese specific health checkups.
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 85,716 subjects (male=29,282, 34.2%) aged 40-74 years who underwent specific health checkups from 2012 to 2014 in Kanazawa city, Japan, were included in this study. We evaluated the attainment rates of the lipid management targets according to the JAS2012 guideline and investigated the clinical characteristics of the subjects without achieving the targets.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The target for LDL cholesterol (LDL-C) was the least attained in all risk categories, 89, 72, 50, and 34% for category I, II, III, and secondary prevention, respectively, in 2014. In addition, these rates inversely correlated with the grade of risk categories (p-value for trends ＜0.001). Attainment rate of the LDL-C target in the suspected chronic kidney disease (CKD) group was significantly lower than in the groups with diabetes, stroke, or absolute risk in category III (49.2, 60.3, 63.5, 54.4%, respectively, p-value ＜0.001 for each). Moreover, the attainment rate of the LDL-C target was significantly lower in subjects that did not receive lipid-lowering therapy than in those who received it in the secondary prevention (27.7 and 40.6%, respectively, p-value ＜0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Lipid management is inadequate in community-based settings, particularly, in subjects with CKD and secondary prevention.
authors: Department of Cardiovascular and Internal Medicine, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine.
authors: Hayato
authors: H
authors: Tada
authors: Masa-Aki
authors: MA
authors: Kawashiri
authors: Atsushi
authors: A
authors: Nohara
authors: Akihiro
authors: A
authors: Inazu
authors: Junji
authors: J
authors: Kobayashi
authors: Kenji
authors: K
authors: Yasuda
authors: Hiroshi
authors: H
authors: Mabuchi
authors: Masakazu
authors: M
authors: Yamagishi
authors: Kenshi
authors: K
authors: Hayashi
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D050197:Atherosclerosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control*; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D005260:Female; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D008055:Lipids / Q000032:analysis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D055502:Secondary Prevention; D012955:Societies, Medical
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids