Consensus document for lipid profile determination and reporting in Spanish clinical laboratories. What parameters should be included in a basic lipid profile?

Abstract

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) continue to be the main cause of death in our country. Adequate control of lipid metabolism disorders is a key challenge in cardiovascular prevention that is far from being achieved in real clinical practice. There is a great heterogeneity in the reports of lipid metabolism from Spanish clinical laboratories, which may contribute to its poor control. For this reason, a working group of the main scientific societies involved in the care of patients at vascular risk, has prepared this document with a consensus proposal on the determination of the basic lipid profile in cardiovascular prevention, recommendations for its realization and unification of criteria to incorporate the lipid control goals appropriate to the vascular risk of the patients in the laboratory reports. © 2023 Elsevier España, S.L.U., Arán Ediciones, Sociedad Española de Arteriosclerosis (SEA), ), Sociedad Española de Medicina de Laboratorio (SEQCML), Sociedad Española de Cardiología (SEC), Sociedad Española de Angiología y Cirugía Vascular (SEACV), Sociedad Española de Cirugía Cardiovascular y Endovascular (SECCE), Sociedad Española de Diabetes (SED), Sociedad Española de Endocrinología y Nutrición (SEEN), Sociedad Española de Hipertensión y Riesgo Vascular (SEHLELHA), Sociedad Española de Medicina de Familia y Comunitaria (SEMFyC), Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI), Sociedad Española de Médicos Generales y de Familia (SEMG), Sociedad Española de Nefrología (SEN) y Sociedad Española de Neurología (SEN).