ECE2013 Poster Presentations Diabetes (151 abstracts)
Lipid profile of patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in Albania
Florian Toti 1 , Aldi Shehu 2 , Kliti Hoti 3 , Manjola Carcani 1 , Adriana Lapardhaja 1 & Luftime Bruka 1
1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, University Hospital Center ‘Mother Theresa’, Tirana, Albania; 2Laboratory ‘Intermedica’, Tirana, Albania; 3Department of Nephrology and Dialysis, University Hospital Center ‘Mother Theresa’, Tirana, Albania.
Background and aims: Diabetic patients are at increased risk for macrovascular complications and lower extremity amputations. Knowing their metabolic control degree, and lipid profile, through an early intervention, we can reduce their risk factors for cardiovascular disease, and diabetes complications. The aim of our study was to determine the lipid profile of patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Patients and methods: Hundred patients, selected at the outpatient policlinic no. 3 in Tirana, the capital of Albania. All the patients had completed anthropometric measures, HbA1c and lipid profile after a 12-h fast. All the persons younger than 30 years, diabetes diagnosed before 6 months, or uncompleted data were excluded from the study.
Results: We obtained all the data for 75 patients. Males 48 (64%), mean age 55.6±9.32 years, mean BMI 28.7±4.2 kg/m2, mean HbA1c 7.44%±2.54. 47.6% of the patients had a total cholesterol >220 mg/dl, 16% of the patients had triglycerides >250 mg/dl, and 41.3% of them had TG <150 mg/dl, and 64% had the LDL >130 mg/dl. 83.3% of males had HDL <45 mg/dl and 100% of women had HDL <55 mg/dl respectively.
Conclusions: In our study the lipid profile of Albanian patients was somehow different from the common profile of patients newly diagnosed with T2 diabetes. Even in the previous studies we have found a lipid profile with high total cholesterol levels, and especially very low HDL levels, probably due to the sedentary lifestyle, which needs further evaluation, because the metabolic control of our patients was not very bad.
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