Mexican Registry of Dyslipidemia in Patients at High and Very High Risk of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease and the Use of an Application to Achieve Dyslipidemic Treatment Goals - REMEXDIS-IMSS

Material and Methods. Design and selection criteria. This is a cuasi experimental with temporal series measures, multicenter, in adult patients entitled to the IMSS who are treated in different hospitals of the three levels of care, meeting the definition of elevated risk or extremely elevated risk of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Those who lose validity, pregnant or nursing women, or who do not want to continue participating in the study will be excluded. Patients with acute coronary ischemic syndrome should wait two months to be included in the study. Sample size. Calculation of sample size was estimated according to the ODISSEY study, where the frequency of the cardiovascular event or outcome was 11.3% for those receiving the maximum treatment and therefore with adequate lipid levels, and 9.8% for those that do not, assuming a significance level of 0.05, 17,116 registered patients, with initial evaluations, and at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months. Methods. Clinical and laboratory measurements will be made at each appointment and the data will be uploaded to dedicated loaded database. The Portable Test Strip Analyzer (CardioChek) shall be used for glucose and lipid profile measurement and if the treatment target has not been achieved (LDL-C < 70 mg/dL or < 1.8 mmol/L), the application will issue an alert to the health personnel involved for their knowledge, and to be attended in a timely and priority manner at the specialty consultation assigned to them, and an alert will be sent to the patient, reminding them their next appointment.

Variables. Grouping: High-risk patients and extremely high cardiovascular risk. Primary. Dyslipidemia/Dyslipidemia Treatment Goal with the use of the applicative. The goal to achieve is to maintain an LDL-C value <70 mg/dL or <1.8 mmol/L.Secondary. Age, gender, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity, weight, height, schooling, and treatment used. Explorative: Cardiac and non-cardiac mortality, unstable angina requiring hospitalization, non-fatal myocardial infarction, fatal or non-fatal ischemic cerebral vascular disease, need for surgical or percutaneous coronary revascularization. Lipid-lowering treatment used.

Statistical management of information. Exploratory analysis. The type of distribution of the continuous quantitative variables shall be determined according to the bias and kurtosis values and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test shall establish whether they have normal distribution or not.

Descriptive analysis. Qualitative variables such as biological sex and presence of major cardiovascular event shall be expressed as frequency or proportion and continuous quantitative variables such as age and lipid levels as mean and standard deviation if they follow normal distribution or as median and percentiles otherwise.

Inferential analysis. For the National Register. The investigators will identify if there are differences between patients with extremely elevated risk and elevated risk for qualitative variables such as biological sex, schooling, treatment used, absolute number of risk factors, etc., by means of chi square test (or Fisher exact as the case may be) and risk will be calculated by odds ratio with their respective confidence interval. To identify whether there are differences between groups of quantitative variables such as systemic arterial pressure, waist circumference, lipid levels, etc., the comparison will be performed by Student's t-test for independent variables (or Mann Whitney U if the data do not have normal distribution). A logistic regression analysis will be performed to identify the weight of each variable in relation to the risk classification, this being the regressor to be included in the model.