| Title | Lipoprotein profile and prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in urban Moroccan women. | | Author(s) | El ayachi M, Mziwira M, Vincent S, Defoort C, Portugal H, Lairon D, Belahsen R | | Institution | Laboratoire de Physiologie Appliquée à la Nutrition et à l'Alimentation, Faculté des sciences d'El jadida, Maroc. | | Source | Eur J Clin Nutr 2005 Dec; 59(12):1379-86. | | MeSH | Adult
Aging
Apolipoproteins
Biological Markers
Blood Pressure
Body Mass Index
Cardiovascular Diseases
Cholesterol
Comparative Study
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Lipoproteins, HDL Cholesterol
Lipoproteins, LDL Cholesterol
Middle Aged
Morocco
Prevalence
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Risk Factors
Triglycerides
Urban Population
Waist-Hip Ratio
| | Abstract | OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to characterize the lipid and apolipoprotein profile and the prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in a population of urban adult women of Morocco.
DESIGN: A total of 213 women 25-55 y old were sampled from an agricultural province of Morocco: El Jadida. The following parameters of lipid and apolipoprotein profile were measured: plasma triglycerides (TG), plasma cholesterol (TC), triglyceride-rich lipoprotein triglycerides (TRL-TG), TRL-cholesterol (TRL-C), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and apolipoproteins A1, B, B48, CIII and E. Waist circumference (WC), body mass index (BMI) and blood pressure (BP) were also determined.
RESULTS: The women studied showed the following pattern: elevated TC, LDL-C levels and TC/HDL-C in 10, 19.4 and in 43.8%, respectively; low HDL-C levels in 45.3% (<0.9 mmol/l) or in 95% (when the cutoff <1.3 mmol/l is used), elevated TG levels in 11.8%. Elevated TRL-C (>0.6 mmol/l) and TRL-TG (>0.8 mmol/l) were observed in 13.4%. Obesity and hypertension were highly prevalent in 23.9 and 16.5%, respectively. Plasma triglyceride concentrations were closely correlated with plasma concentrations of TRL-TG (R = 0.86, P = 0.0001), apoB (R = 0.50, P = 0.0001) and apoCIII (R = 0.52, P = 0.0001) and moderately correlated with HDL-C levels (R = -0.3, P = 0.0001) and BMI (R = 0.4, P = 0.0001). The association between BMI and systolic blood pressure was statistically significant (R = 0.3, P = 0.0001). Obesity, BP, TRL-C, TRL-TG, TG, apoB and apoCIII increased with age.
CONCLUSION: There is a high prevalence of some risk factors for cardiovascular disease including altered lipid and lipoprotein profiles in the Moroccan urban women studied, some of these risk factors are associated with age. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 16118656 |
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