{"id":1442,"date":"2013-03-29T15:11:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2013-03-29T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T18:11:12","slug":"more-adults-taking-using-cholesterol-lowering-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2013\/03\/29\/1442\/","title":{"rendered":"More Adults taking using Cholesterol-Lowering Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/13693_lores.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1443 alignright\" alt=\"The man pictured here, was in the process of making some healthy food choices during his shopping adventure at a mobile produce market, which he would place into a yellow plastic basket he was carrying in his right hand.\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/13693_lores.jpg?w=201\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Each year, more than 2 million Americans suffer from acute cardiovascular events that account for approximately one-fourth of the total cost of inpatient hospital care.\u00a0 Control of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL\u2013C) has been shown to substantially reduce cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality.\u00a0 It can be managed with lifestyle changes, medications, or a combination of these approaches. A diet low in saturated fat is recognized as one of the most effective lifestyle changes to decrease high LDL\u2013C.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NCHS has released a\u00a0<a title=\"Trends in High LDL Cholesterol, Cholesterol-lowering Medication Use, and Dietary Saturated-fat Intake: United States, 1976\u20132010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db117.pdf\">report<\/a> that\u00a0evaluates the trends in high LDL\u2013C, use of cholesterol-lowering medication, and low dietary saturated-fat intake from 1976\u20131980 through 2007\u20132010 among adults aged 40\u201374.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key findings from the report<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The prevalence of high low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, or LDL\u2013C, decreased from 59% to 27% from the late 1970s through 2007\u20132010.<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of adults using cholesterol-lowering medication increased from 5% to 23% from the late 1980s through 2007\u20132010.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The percentage of adults consuming a diet low in saturated fat increased from 25% to 41% from the late 1970s through 1988\u20131994.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>No significant changes in the percentage of adults consuming a diet low in saturated fat were observed from 1988\u20131994 through 2007\u20132010.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db117_fig02.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Use of cholesterol-lowering medications among adults aged 40\u201374 (age adjusted): United States, 1988\u20131994 to 2007\u20132010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db117_fig02.png\" width=\"415\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, more than 2 million Americans suffer from acute cardiovascular events that account for approximately one-fourth of the total cost of inpatient hospital care.\u00a0 Control of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL\u2013C) has been shown to substantially reduce cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality.\u00a0 It can be managed with lifestyle changes, medications, or a combination of these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32978,50899],"tags":[63909,63937,64078,64155,30585],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}