Jacek J Jóźwiak, Krzysztof Studziński, Tomasz Tomasik, Adam Windak, Mirosław Mastej, Alberico L Catapano, Kausik K Ray, Dimitri P Mikhailidis, Peter P Toth, George Howard, Gregory Y H Lip, Maciej Tomaszewski, Fadi J Charchar, Naveed Sattar, Bryan Williams, Thomas M MacDonald, Dariusz Nowak, Łukasz Skowron, Sławomir Kasperczyk, Maciej Banach
BACKGROUND AND AIM: To estimate the prevalence of cardiovascular (CV) disease and CV risk factors among Polish patients. METHODS: A nationwide cross-sectional study, LIPIDOGRAM2015, was carried out in Poland in the 4th quarter of 2015 and 1st and 2nd quarters of 2016; 438 primary care physicians enrolled 13,724 adult patients that sought medical care in primary health care practices. RESULTS: Nearly 19% of men and approximately 12% of women had cardiovascular disease (CVD)...
December 2020: Atherosclerosis. Supplements