| Abstract [eng] |
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is still a major cause of premature death across Europe and in our country. Since seventies of the past century CVD mortality in the European Union (EU) countries declined more than twice, while in Lithuania, it even did not reach the level of the EU countries at the seventies of the twentieth century. In order to decrease morbidity from cardiovascular diseases, continuous risk factors, monitoring and informing the society about their prevalence and control methods are required. According to the latest data as much as 80% of deaths from cardiovascular diseases can be avoided when controlling risk factors. The goal of this research is to determine the cardiovascular risk profile in Lithuanian subjects of employable age without overt cardiovascular diseases and evaluate the effectiveness of preventive measures. This research describes the analysis of the cardiovascular risk profile in the group of 23,204 subjects enrolled into the Lithuanian High Cardiovascular Risk (LitHiR) primary prevention program on the primary level from 2009 to 2011. LitHiR program recruited men – at the age of 40–54 years and women – 50–64 years without overt cardiovascular disease. In the middle-aged subjects, participating in LitHiR programme, the prevalence of dyslipidemia, arterial hypertension, diabetes and metabolic syndrome was found to be high. We can roughly state that every second has established arterial hypertension, almost nine out of ten have established dyslipidemia and one third has metabolic syndrome. |
