Jakarta, Gatra.com – Dyslipidemia is a major cause of coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke. With a high death rate and become the most frequent killer in developed and developing countries.
This was stated by the Head of the Division of Metabolic Endocrine and Diabetes, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia (FKUI)-Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital (RSCM), Dr. dr. Tri Juli Edi Tarigan, SpPD-KEMD, via Zoom in the Virtual Press Conference which was held on Thursday (12/8).
He explained that dyslipidemia is high cholesterol or cholesterol disorders. This symptom is a group of lipid metabolism disorders with various forms of the spectrum. It is characterized by an increase or decrease in the lipid fraction in plasma and is one of the factors causing cardiovascular disease.
It is known, the death rate due to dyslipidemia is 17.3 million out of a total of 54 million cases of mortality per year.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) or the World Health Organization in 2008, Tri said, the prevalence of dyslipidemia in men was 37 percent and 40 percent in women.
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