Hypertension prevalence and awareness amongst a group of women attending August meeting

Dyslipidemia and Its Relationship with DifferentAnthropometric Measures in Nigerian Adults

“…1. This finding supports that found in other studies carried out in Nigeria where they found that low HDL-C is the commonest dyslipidemia in Nigeria [19][20][21] .Note also that the higher prevalence ofdyslipidemia in females was mainly due to low HDL-C as TG was higher in males than females and that central obesity was more prevalent in females than males. This finding differs from that of Despreset al 15 .…”

“…The result of a study carried out in African women has demonstrated the association of abdominal obesity with high TG, low HDL-C and high LDL-C [18] . Studies carried out in Nigeria were mainly on prevalence and pattern of dyslipidemia and all revealed high prevalence rates with low HDL-C being the commonest dyslipidemia [19][20][21] . The aim of this study was to find out which anthropometric measure of adiposity best correlates with dyslipidemia and its pattern and prevalence in an adult Nigerian population.…”

Dyslipidemia in Nigeria: Prevalence and pattern

“…Other patterns of dyslipidemia reported were high LDL-C (51%), TC (23%) and TG (5%) levels. • Agboola-Abu and Onabolu [21] [22] in 2010 studied prevalence of overweight/obesity and dyslipidemia amongst a group of women attending "August" meeting at Naze, Owerri, South East Nigeria and found very high (60.5%) prevalence of dyslipidemia.…”

Nutritional status, lifestyle and knowledge of predisposing factors on hyperlipedemia among out-patients in Enugu State University Teaching Hospital (ESUTH), Nigeria

“…The epidemic of hyperlipidemia in developing countries has resulted in large part, from the economic (Reddy and Yusuf, 1998). Hyperlipidemia is a well-known and major risk factor for ischemic heart disease, as elevated levels of triglycerides, total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are documented risk factors for atherogenesis (Osuji et al, 2010). It has also been shown that serum total cholesterol levels are continuously correlated with CHD risk over a broad range of cholesterol values in various populations throughout the world (Osuji et al, 2010).…”

“…Hyperlipidemia is a well-known and major risk factor for ischemic heart disease, as elevated levels of triglycerides, total cholesterol, low density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) are documented risk factors for atherogenesis (Osuji et al, 2010). It has also been shown that serum total cholesterol levels are continuously correlated with CHD risk over a broad range of cholesterol values in various populations throughout the world (Osuji et al, 2010). It is also strongly associated with hypertension and plays a crucial role in the development of cardiovascular disease, which has become a leading cause of death in most developing countries such as Nigeria (Ahaneku et al, 2014).…”