Lipemia predicting variables in plasma donors

Abstract

Background: several units of blood, from voluntary donors, are discarded due to changes in organoleptic characteristics often caused by the presence of lipemia. Objective: to identify predictors of lipemia in hiperimmune plasma donors, in the provincial Blood Bank of Camagüey, from 2018 to 2021. Methods: a retrospective, case-control, analytic and observational study was performed on donors and the time period defined in the objective. The sample comprised 226 donors, divided into two groups at a 1:1 ratio, one group of cases with those diagnosed with lipemia and another control group without lipemia. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used for data processing. Results: there was a predominance of plasma donors between 40 and 49 years of age (42 %), males (85 %) and more than five years in the program (42.9 %). The variables: sex, nutritional status, physical inactivity, smoking, triglycerides level, cholesterol level, time in the plasmapheresis program and intensity of donations, showed significant statistical association with the appearance of lipemia. The variables with greater predictive capacity were: nutritional status, smoking, triglycerides level, total cholesterol level and time in the plasmapheresis program . Conclusions: being overweight or obese, smoking, altered triglycerides and total cholesterol levels, and being more than five years in the plasmapheresis program, are predictors of a probable diagnosis of lipemia in plasma donors.

Keywords

• hiperlipidemias
• donantes de sangre
• plasma