Trends of Prevalence of Uncontrolled Risk Factors for Cerebrocardiovascular Disease: Southern Italy from 1988/9 to 2008/9

Table 1

Prevalence of uncontrolled major risk factors from 1988/9 to 2008/9. Standardized data for the European population: males.

Risk conditions	Group 1; 1988-89; ()	Group 2; 1998-99; ()	Group 3; 2008-09; ()		1 versus 3	1 versus 2	2 versus 3
Hypercholesterolemia
Uncontrolled high cholesterol	20.8%	14.3%	13.9%	0.003	<0.05	<0.05	NS
Hypercholesterolemic	20.8%	16.4%	21.1%	NS
Hypercholesterolemic treated	—	2.5%	40.8%
Treated at target	—	84%	91%
Hypercholesterolemic at target	—	12.8%	37%
Hyperglycaemia
Uncontrolled high glycaemia	7.5%	11.5%	5.2%	0.000	NS	<0.05	<0.05
Diabetics	9.1%	11.9%	7%	0.016	NS	NS	<0.05
Treated diabetics	30.1%	30.2%	65.7%
Treated at target	13%	11.1%	39.1%
Diabetics target	5%	3.7%	25.7%
Smokers
Current smokers	45.7%	43.5%	28.7%	0.000	<0.05	NS	<0.05
Ex-smokers	33.1%	27.7%	32%	NS
Nonsmokers	21.2%	28.8%	39.2%	0.000	<0.05	<0.05	<0.05
Hypertension
Hypertensives	55.8%	54.2%	45.2%	0.000	<0.05	NS	<0.05
Uncontrolled high blood pressure	53.1%	51.4%	38.8%	0.000	<0.05	NS	<0.05
Treated hypertensives	30%	30.6%	26.6%
Effectively treated	16.1%	16.9%	53.3%
Hypertensive target	5%	5.2%	14.2%

Uncontrolled high cholesterol: patients with cholesterol ≥240 mg/dL, treated and not treated.
Hypercholesterolemic subjects: uncontrolled high cholesterol + subjects on cholesterol-lowering therapy.
Hypercholesterolemic subjects treated: hypercholesterolemic treated/hypercholesterolemic subjects.
Patients at the target: treated target (cholesterol < 240 mg/dL)/patients treated.
Hypercholesterolemic at the target: hypercholesterolemic at the target/hypercholesterolemic.
Uncontrolled high glycaemia: glycaemia ≥ 126 mg/dL, treated and not treated.
Diabetic patients: uncontrolled high glycaemia + patients treated with hypoglycaemic drugs.
Diabetic treated: treated/diabetic subjects.
Diabetic treated to target: treated target (glycaemia < 126 mg/dL)/diabetics treated.
Diabetic at target: diabetic target/diabetics.
Uncontrolled high blood pressure: SBP ≥ 140 and/or DBP ≥ 90 mmHg, treated and not treated.
Hypertensive patients: uncontrolled high blood pressure + subjects in antihypertensive therapy.
Hypertensive therapy effective: subjects treated with target values/subjects treated.
Effectively treated: treated target/subjects treated.
Hypertensive at target: treated hypertensives with target values/hypertensives.