Investigation on knowledge of hyperlipidemia in healthy people undergoing medical examination

Objective To investigate the knowledge and demand on hyperlipidemia in healthy people undergoing medical examination,so as to give health education accordingly.Methods Questionnairesurvey was used to investigate the knowledge and demand on hyperlipidemia in 429 healthy peopleundergoing medical examination Results We found that 63.4% of the subjects had the general knowledge and risk factors of hyperlipidemia,53.0% of them knew the preventive measures for hyperlipidemia,but only 25.2% of them put the measures into practice respectively, the difference had statistically significant (P<0.01).Conclusions The subjects have a poor knowledge of hyperlipidemia and most of them have not practiced any prevention measures.Multi modes of health education should be given by nurse to improve the hyperlipidemia knowledge of people to decrease the morbidity of hyperlipidemia. Key words: Hyperlipidemia ;  Knowledge ;  Investigation ;