pattern of coronary artery disease risk factors in population younger than 55 years and above 55 years: a population study of 31999 healthy individuals

more than eighty percent of patients with coronary heart diseases (chd) have conventional risk factors. prevalence of well known risk factors seems to show a different pattern in younger patients and individual above 55 years. to evaluate the pattern of conventional chd risk factors in healthy individuals in two different age groups. a large scale population based survey of 31999 individuals from ten medical centers was designed. screening of risk factors was performed upon these protocols: taking medical history, physical examination and blood tests of complete blood cell counts, fasting blood sugar, lipid profile, urinalysis and creatinine. prevalence of the risk factors in healthy people aged above 55 years were: 8.1% for systolic blood pressure (sbp)>140 mmhg, 3.8% for diastolic blood pressure (dbp)>90mmhg, 13.9% for fasting blood glucose (fbs)≥126 mg/dl, 36.9% for total cholesterol>200 mg/dl, 19.2% for triglyceride (tg)>200 mg/dl, 67.8% for hdl-c130 mg/dl, 4.72 for tc/hdl-c ratio, 2.88 for ldl-c/hdl/c ratio and 4.24 for tg/hdl-c ratio. prevalence of risk factors in individuals younger than 55 years were: 1.7% for sbp>140 mmhg, 1.2% for dbp>90 mmhg, 5.2% for fbs≥126 mg/dl, 31.3% for tc>200 mg/dl, 21.5% for tg>200 mg/dl, 69.4% for hdl-c130 mg/dl, 4.7 for tc/hdl-c ratio, 2.83 for ldl-c/hdl-c ratio and 4.43 for tg/hdl-c ratio. in univariate model of analysis: prevalence of the risk factors were significantly higher in age above 55 years than in people younger than 55 years except for hypertriglyceridemia and hdl-c200 mg/dl p= 0.002, hdl-c140 mmhg p=0.001. pattern of such a chd risk factors of fbs≥126 mg/dl, tg>200 mg/dl, hdl-c140 mmhg demonstrated a statistically significant difference in the age above 55 years to the healthy people younger than 55 years. these results cab be implicated to set up prediction models for stratifying individuals at higher risk of chd.