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    Frecuencia de dislipidemia en la población adulta mayor de las parroquias urbanas del Cantón Cuenca, 2015
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2016-11-11) Arias Maldonado, Adela Catalina; Yupa Tenelema, Mónica Catalina; Paute Matute, Paola Carolina; Encalada Torres, Lorena Esperanza
    Introduction: The dyslipidemias are a set of nutritional and genetic alterations associated with cardiovascular disease, prevailing and increase morbidity and mortality. Its importance in the elderly is its high frequency causing serious complications both physical and psychological. In Ecuador the percentage of dyslipidemia is 17.6%, being the main hypertriglyceridemia with 40.6% for that reason has become one of the leading causes of daily outpatient. Objective: To determine the frequency of dyslipidemia by clinical diagnosis in adults over urban parishes of the canton Cuenca. 2015 Materials and Methods: It is about descriptive studies which were performed. We got data on age, sex, occupation, marital status, education, and history of chronic no communicable diseases; and through surveys we also get anthropometric measures such as height, weight, and abdominal circumference. A sample of venous blood was drawn and a lipid profile to all participants was conducted, the data were tabulated and analyzed using the SPSS, Epi Info and EXCEL programs for data analysis descriptive statistics was applied to frequency, percentages. Results: The percentage of dyslipidemia was 20.7 %, hypertriglyceridemia 14,2%, hypercholesterolemia was 6,5%, in females was 15,0% and males 7,0%, dyslipidemia prevalent among 65 to 74 to 15.5 % , likewise, 7.8% of older adults have no education , 12.1 % were married , 13.7 % are passive.An association with dyslipidemia to passive persons, with no education.