Akbar Shafiee, Sina Kazemian, Arash Jalali, Farshid Alaeddini, Soheil Saadat, Farzad Masoudkabir, Hamed Tavolinejad, Ali Vasheghani-Farahani, Vicente Artola Arita, Saeed Sadeghian, Mohamamdali Boroumand, Abbasali Karimi, Oscar H Franco
BACKGROUND: Dyslipidemia is among the leading risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), with an increasing global burden, especially in developing countries. We investigated the prevalence of dyslipidemia and abnormal lipid profiles in Tehran. METHODS: We used data from 8072 individuals aged≥35 from the Tehran Cohort Study (TeCS) recruitment phase. Fasting serum total cholesterol (TC), low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglyceride were measured...
February 1, 2024: Archives of Iranian Medicine