Gyeonggi Province Develops Guidelines for Managing Dyslipidemia

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Park No-hun] Gyeonggi Province, under the auspices of the Provincial Hypertension and Diabetes Regional Education Center, developed an 'Educational Guideline for Dyslipidemia Patients' and held non-face-to-face workshops on the 2nd and 9th of this month targeting city and county health centers and related organizations.

'Dyslipidemia' is a precursor disease that causes cardiocerebrovascular disease due to excessive lipids or fatty components in the blood, and is a chronic disease with high concurrent risk along with hypertension and diabetes.

The province explained that existing standard educational materials for patients used in health centers have often been limited to hypertension and diabetes, so the guideline development and workshops were conducted to maintain the health and enable effective management of dyslipidemia patients.

The newly developed guideline consists of a disease section on dyslipidemia and a nutrition section on dyslipidemia, and is scheduled to be distributed to health centers, hypertension and diabetes registered education centers, and other related organizations this month.

The workshop included lectures on ▲Introduction to dyslipidemia ▲How to utilize the educational guideline 'disease section' ▲How to utilize the educational guideline 'nutrition section'.

Kim Jae-hun, Director of the Gyeonggi Province Health and Wellness Bureau, said, "We hope that the newly developed patient education guideline will help systematic education at all health centers and related organizations in the province, thereby raising the health level of provincial residents to the next level."

Meanwhile, according to data released by the Korean Society of Lipidology and Atherosclerosis this year, as of 2018, 2 out of 5 Korean adults were found to have dyslipidemia.

In particular, 18.9% of people in their 20s, the younger generation, were dyslipidemia patients, and the prevalence was increasing across all age groups except those in their 70s and older.