To investigate the prevalence of dyslipidemia and diabetes mellitus in adult residents of Jiangxi Province, and to explore the correlation between dyslipidemia and diabetes mellitus.

A multi-stage stratified random sampling method was adopted to conduct cross-sectional survey of 5 040 residents over 18 years old in 14 urban and rural community committees in Jiangxi Province from March to July 2018, including questionnaire, physical examination, oral glucose tolerance test and biochemical indicators etc. SAS software was used for statistical analysis and Chi-square test was used for comparing the differences and tendency test. Logistic regression model was used for multiple-factor analysis.

The standardized prevalence of dyslipidemia in adults and diabetes mellitus was 28.79% and 11.68% respectively in Jiangxi Province. The prevalence of dyslipidemia in adult females increased with age (P<0.01), while that in males decreased with age (P<0.01). The prevalence of diabetes mellitus increased with the increase of body mass index (P<0.01). Mixed dyslipidemia had a greater impact on blood glucose metabolism than single dyslipidemia (P<0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that dyslipidemia, high triglyceride, high low density lipoprotein cholesterol were independent risk factors for diabetes mellitus in adults in Jiangxi Province, with OR values of 1.395, 1.116 and 1.331, respectively (all P<0.05). The incidence of adult diabetes mellitus in Jiangxi Province was not related to the levels of total cholesterol and high density lipoprotein cholesterol (P>0.05).

Dyslipidemia is closely related to diabetes.People with obesity, overweight or mixed dyslipidemia are at higher risk of diabetes. Prevention and control work should be differentiated according to crowed characteristics.

Diabetes mellitus; Dyslipidemias; Community residents; Correlation