The research team led by Katsuyuki Miura, director of the Center for Epidemiologic Research in Asia, Shiga University of Medical Science, found that single men are at high risk of untreated hypercholesterolemia, and that the economic factor for men is hypercholesterolemia. It was clarified that it is related to the prevalence risk.
At the time of analysis, those who took serum total cholesterol 240 mg / dl or more or cholesterol-lowering drugs were defined as having hypercholesterolemia, and those who did not take cholesterol-lowering drugs in hypercholesterolemia were defined as untreated persons.Men and women relate to the four social factors of marriage status (married / single), employment status, education history (high school graduation or less / junior college or above), and household monthly expenditure, and the prevalence of hypercholesterolemia and treatment status. Analyzed separately.
After adjusting and analyzing the effects of other factors such as age, men with low household spending were 1.7 times more likely to have hypercholesterolemia than those with high household spending, and singles were compared to married people. The result was that the untreated risk was 2.5 times higher.On the other hand, in women, prevalence and untreated hypercholesterolemia did not show a clear association with social factors of marriage, employment, education history, and household spending.
Hypercholesterolemia (especially hypercholesterolemia) is a major risk factor that causes arteriosclerosis and increases the risk of heart disease such as myocardial infarction.Serum cholesterol levels in Japanese have risen significantly since the latter half of the 1960s, and in recent years have reached the same level as in Western countries.
The results of low economic conditions increasing the risk of hypercholesterolemia in men indicate the need to further investigate what dietary habits were associated with.In addition, since single men tend to be less treated than married men, it is necessary to confirm whether single men have been treated especially when promoting treatment for hypercholesterolemia after regular medical examinations. I also understood.
Of the 300 men and women over the age of 2010 who participated in NIPPON DATA2010 from the 20 National Health and Nutrition Survey conducted on the general population in 2898 districts nationwide, the subjects analyzed were hypercholesterolemia information and social factors. There are a total of 999 males (mean age 59.1 years) and 1418 females (mean age 57.2 years) with no data loss.
The research results were published online on January 2018, 1 in the journal "Journal of Atherosclerosis and Thrombosis" of the Japan Atherosclerosis Society.
