Prevalence awareness treatment and control of dyslipidemia in older persons in urban and rural population in the Astana region Kazakhstan

摘要

BackgroundDespite high cardiovascular mortality in Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union, there is limited information about major risk factors, including blood lipids. We investigated the prevalence of impaired concentrations of blood lipids, the awareness, treatment and control of hypercholesterolemia, and factors associated with these indicators in urban and rural populations in Kazakhstan.