{"id":4252,"date":"2018-07-16T10:59:13","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4252"},"modified":"2018-07-16T10:59:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T14:59:13","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-adults-aged-20-years-or-older-told-their-cholesterol-was-high-who-were-taking-lipid-lowering-medications-by-sex-and-age-group-national-health-and-nutrition-examinat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2018\/07\/16\/4252\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Adults Aged 20 Years or Older Told Their Cholesterol Was High Who Were Taking Lipid-Lowering Medications by Sex and Age Group \u2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2005\u20132006 to 2015\u20132016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6727a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/figures\/mm6727a6-F.gif\" width=\"431\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The percentage of men told by a health professional that their cholesterol was high who were taking lipid-lowering medications increased from 36% in 2005\u20132006 to 50% in 2015\u20132016 among those aged 60 years or older but not among those aged 20\u201339 years (1% to 2%) or 40\u201359 years (16% to 17%).<\/p>\n<p>The percentage taking lipid-lowering medications also increased (from 33% to 38%) among women aged 60 years or older but not among women aged 20\u201339 years (1% to 0.7%) or 40\u201359 years (from 13% to 11%).<\/p>\n<p>For each survey year from 2005\u20132006 to 2015\u20132016, the percentage of both men and women with high cholesterol taking lipid-lowering medications was higher among those aged \u226560 years than those in younger age groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><b>\u00a0<\/b>Carroll MD, Mussilino ME, Wolz M, Srinivas PR. Trends in apolipoprotein B, non\u2013high-density lipoprotein, and low-density lipoprotein for adults 60 years and older by use of lipid-lowering medications: United States, 2005\u20132006 to 2013\u20132014 [Research Letter]. Circulation 2018;138:208\u201310.\u00a0<a class=\"tp-link-policy tp-external-link-fix\" href=\"http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/content\/138\/2\/208\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/circ.ahajournals.org\/content\/138\/2\/208<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6727a6.htm?s_cid=mm6727a6_e\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6727a6.htm?s_cid=mm6727a6_e<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage of men told by a health professional that their cholesterol was high who were taking lipid-lowering medications increased from 36% in 2005\u20132006 to 50% in 2015\u20132016 among those aged 60 years or older but not among those aged 20\u201339 years (1% to 2%) or 40\u201359 years (16% to 17%). The percentage taking lipid-lowering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32978,50899,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252"}],"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=4252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}