Characteristics of acute cerebral hemorrhage with regard to lipid metabolism and glycometabolism among different age groups.

OBJECTIVE

This study investigated the lipid metabolism and glycometabolism of patients with acute cerebral hemorrhage from 2006-2008 in order to find a possible association among lipid metabolism, glycometabolism and different age groups of adults in the Chinese Chongqing population.

METHODS

Data on levels of total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), high density lipoprotein (HDL-C), low density lipoprotein (LDL-C) and fasting serum glucose (GLU) were obtained from records of patients (548) from the Department of Neurology of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University. Participants ranging in age from 21-94 years were divided into three groups; the first group was the young group in which all participants were 21-44 years old; the second group was the middle-age group in which all participants were 45-59 years old, and the last group was the elderly group in which all participants were 60-94 years old.

RESULTS

Levels of TC, TG, HDL-C, LDL-C and GLU were not significantly different among the three groups (P>0.05). Proportions of hypercholesterolemia high LDL-C, low HDL-C, impaired fasting glucose and diabetes mellitus were not different among the three groups (P>0.05). Only the proportion of hypertriglyceridemia patients was significantly different. The risk of being diagnosed with hypertriglyceridemia in the middle-age group was increased 2.371 times (95% CI: 1.542-3.645) and in the young group increased 2.281 times (95% CI: 1.211 -4.296).

CONCLUSIONS

Age and hypertriglyceridemia are risk factors associated with an increased incidence rate of acute cerebral hemorrhage in the Chongqing population in China.