A STUDY ON THE LIPID PROFILE OF HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS

Abstract

Background: Hypertension and dyslipidemia seem to be the two major risk factors contributing to the increasing cardio-vascular disease worldwide including India.

Methods-The present study was carried out on a total of 100 hypertensive patients attending our Hospital and 100 age and sex matched healthy controls. Twelve hour fasting lipid analysis was done for Serum triglycerides (TG), total cholesterol (TC), High Density Lipoprotein (HDL), Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL).

Results: The Mean serum total cholesterol values were highly significant in hypertensive subjects (231.8±34.7 mg/dL) as compared to the healthy control subjects (158.6±12.10 mg/dL). The mean serum TG level was 107.94±16.10 in healthy control subjects, and 214.41±38.10 in hypertensive patients. This difference was highly significant. The mean values for HDL 29.82 ±6.44was mg/dL for hypertensive subjects whereas 43.20±4.41 mg/dl for healthy control subjects, respectively.

Conclusion: All the lipid profile like cholesterol, LDL, TG and HDL were derange in the hypertensive than those in the healthy controls.

Keywords: Hypertension, Lipid profile, HDL ,TG , LDL.