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

• Main Authors: Adil Supiyev (Author), Talgat Nurgozhin (Author), Zhaxybay Zhumadilov (Author), Anne Peasey (Author), Jaroslav A. Hubacek (Author), Martin Bobak (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Despite 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 cont...