Comparative study of dyslipidemia among pre and post - menopausal women

Dyslipidaemia is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease in pre and post-menopausal women. Therefore, it is of interest to analyse the lipid abnormality among them. Totally n=214 women were recruited, among them (n=107) were premenopausal and (n=107) were postmenopausal women. The prevalence of dyslipidaemia in our study was 81.77% (n=175). Among premenopausal women 26.1% (n=28) and post menopause 35.5% (n=38) had isolated lipid abnormality whereas mixed dyslipidaemia was 37.3% (n=40) in premenopausal women and 64.4% (n=69) in postmenopausal women. Study shows the complexity of lipid profile variations and suggests the need for age and stage-specific cardiovascular risk assessment.