VIVA – Many consider it trivial about dislipidemia aka rate abnormality cholesterol in the body. In fact, high cholesterol which is included as a cardiovascular disease can be fatal, such as cardiovascular disease heart until stroke which leads to death.
According to WHO estimates, cardiovascular disease was the leading cause of death in Indonesia in 2016, which was 35 percent of all deaths.
According to research by Hussain et al., the most common causes of fatal coronary heart disease in Indonesia in men are smoking (28.0%), hypertension (20.1%), high cholesterol (7.7%), overweight (7.0%). 7%), and diabetes (6.4%) while in women were hypertension (24.1%), high cholesterol (16.7%), overweight (12.1%), diabetes (12.0%), and smoking (1, 3%).
Dyslipidemia is a fat metabolism disorder characterized by an increase in total cholesterol levels, an increase in blood cholesterol levels Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL), increased triglyceride levels and decreased High Density Lipoprotein (HDL),” said the Head of the Metabolic Endocrine and Diabetes Division, Department of Internal Medicine, FKUI-RSCM, Dr. dr. Tri Juli Edi Tarigan, Sp.PD, KEMD, in a virtual event recently.
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