Via practica 6/2005

POSSIBILITIES OF DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF LIPIDS DISORDERS IN AMBULANCE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONER

More than half deaths in Slovakia (56 %) are caused by cardiovascular diseases. One of the most important risk factors of cardiovascular disease are metabolic disorders of lipids and lipoproteins. Nowadays there exists a lot of evidence from experimental, epidemiologic and interventional studies that are proving relationship between influence lipids levels (nonfarmacologicaly and farmacologicaly) and decrease cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. It is not a surprise that especially in recent years the attention focused on lipids metabolism disorders is raising. This attention from the side of general practitioners is supported by possibility of active treatment of lipids disorders.

Keywords: lipids, statines, fibrates, cardiovascular risk.