OBJECTIVE: To identify the prevalence and correlates of dyslipidemia in adults living in the city of Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, in 2007. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional population-based epidemiological study was carried out using a three-stage cluster sampling. The variability introduced in the third sampling fraction was corrected, resulting in a weighted sample of 2,471 participants. Dyslipidemia prevalence, defined as abnormal values in at least one of four lipid fractions was estimated in both genders, according sociodemographic, behavioral, and health-related variables. To identify correlates, prevalence ratios were estimated using Poisson regression, in crude and adjusted models. All the estimates were calculated taking into account the sampling design effect. RESULTS: High prevalence of dyslipidemia was found (61.9%; CI95%: 58.5%-65.3%). Income and fiber consumption, in males, and sitting time and saturated fatty acids, in females, were kept in the final models, as well as age and central obesity, which were consistently associated with the outcome, in both genders. CONCLUSIONS: Public intervention policies toward the adoption of healthy food consumption, as well as control central obesity and sedentary behavior might contribute to decrease the prevalence of dyslipidemia and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in Ribeirão Preto.
Dyslipidemia; correlates; cross-sectional studies; epidemiology; public health
