Prevalence of Abnormal Lipid Profile Among Obese People in Mogadisho, Somalia

Background: A lipid profile includes total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, triglycerides, and calculated low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. Obesity is defined as excess body weight, and dyslipidemia is abnormal blood concentrations of total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and triglycerides. HDL carries only one-third to one-fourth of blood cholesterol, while triglycerides store excess energy.

Objective: The aim of this study was to find out the prevalence of abnormal lipid profile among obesity people in Mogadishu Somali.

Materials and Methods: A cross- sectional study was performed at selected hospitals. A total of 150 participants was enrolled in this study. 4 ml of venous blood sample was collected from each participant after taking informed written consent from the participants. Serum level of lipid profile test will be measured by using (AOUTUMATED CHEMISTRY MACHINE) techniques to evaluate lipid profile test status. Data analysis was done with statistical package for data analysis (spss). Results: Among the of 150 participants the predominant age group was 20-30 years (42.7%), followed age group 31- 40 years 20%, and >50 years 20.7%. There was also age groups of 41-50 years (16.7%). According to their level of obesity, out of the 150 participants, 104(69.3%) were class I obesity 25-29.9BMI, 36(24%) were class II obesity 30-35BMI and the last 10(6.7%) were class III obesity >35BMI. In our study, according to laboratory diagnosis, maximum respondents were normal 58(38.7%) followed by 51(34%) were on the border line (HDL<43.7 mg/dl) and 41(27.3%) were abnormal.

Conclusion: The data concluded that the majority of the participants were normal, and also there was abnormal and border line. we do statistically significant, we have found that there’s association between abnormal lipid profile and obesity level where the p-value was 0.006.