Prevalence of dyslipidemia: Assessing differences in the Portuguese central health region

Background Availability of quality information is useful for monitoring population health-status, planning and evaluating healthcare. Morbidity indicators, based on aggregated data from health information systems (HIS), provide information about disease prevalence. This study aims to determine the prevalence of dyslipidemia and to assess data quality for diagnosis coding. Methods Prevalence of the disease was calculated as the proportion of male patients over …