Associations between education level, blood-lipid measurements and statin treatment in a Danish primary health care population from 2000 to 2018.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine whether education level influences screening, monitoring, and treatment of hypercholesterolemia.

Design

Epidemiological cohort study.

Setting

Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre.

Subjects

Cholesterol blood test results ordered by general practitioners in Greater Copenhagen were retrieved from 2000-2018. Using the International Standard Classification of Education classification, the population was categorized by length of education in three groups (basic education; up to 10 years, intermediate education; 11-12 years, advanced education; 13 years or more). The database comprised 13,019,486 blood sample results from 653,903 patients.

Main outcome measures

Frequency of lipid measurement, prevalen

SUBMITTER: Flege MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10193900 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature