{"id":6953,"date":"2020-04-22T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4908"},"modified":"2020-04-22T11:30:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T15:30:52","slug":"total-and-high-density-lipoprotein-cholesterol-in-adults-united-states-2015-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/04\/22\/6953\/","title":{"rendered":"Total and High-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Adults: United States, 2015\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"

Questions for Margaret Carroll, Health Statistician and Lead Author of \u201cTotal and High-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Adults: United States, 2015\u20132018<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Q<\/strong>: How has the prevalence of high total cholesterol among US adults changed since 1999-2000 data and and low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) since 2007-2008?<\/p>\n

MC<\/em><\/strong>: There has been a declining trend in the prevalence of high total cholesterol since 1999-2000 and a declining trend in the prevalence of low HDL-C since 2007-2008.<\/p>\n

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Q<\/strong>: Can you summarize how the data varied by sex, age groups and race?<\/p>\n

MC<\/em><\/strong>: The prevalence of high total cholesterol:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Higher in adults aged 40-59 than in adults aged 20-39 and those aged 60 and over<\/li>\n
  • Not significantly different between men and women aged 20 and older<\/li>\n
  • Not significantly different among non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, non-Hispanic Asians and Hispanics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The prevalence of low HDL-C:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Higher in men than in women overall, within each age group and within each race and Hispanic origin group.<\/li>\n
    • lower among NH black adults than in non-Hispanic white adults, non-Hispanic Asian adults and Hispanic adults over all and in men.<\/li>\n
    • Higher among Hispanic adults than among non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic Asian adults overall, among men and among women.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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      Q<\/strong>: Was there a specific finding in the data that surprised you from this report?<\/p>\n

      MC<\/em><\/strong>: Although we weren\u2019t surprised because the results have been seen in the past, men continue to have a much higher prevalence of low HDL-C compared to women.<\/p>\n

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      Q<\/strong>: How did you obtain this data for this report?<\/p>\n

      MC<\/em><\/strong>: Results presented in this report are based on data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a nationally representative, cross sectional, probability survey representative of the United States non-institutionalized population.\u00a0 Beginning in 1999 NHANES became a continuous survey and data have been released in 2-year cycles.\u00a0 Data from 2015-2016 and 2017-2018 were used to test differences in the prevalence of high total and low HDL-C cholesterol between subgroups. Trends in the prevalence of high total cholesterol are based on data from ten 2-year cycles from 1999-2000 through 2017-2018. Trends in the prevalence of low HDL-C are based on six 2-year cycles from 2007-2008 through 2017-2018<\/p>\n

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      Q<\/strong>: What is the take home message for this report?<\/p>\n

      MC<\/em><\/strong>: Over 1 in ten (11%) adults have high total cholesterol and over 17% have low HDL-C. The prevalence of high total cholesterol has declined since 1999-2000; the prevalence of low HDL-C has declined since 2007-2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Questions for Margaret Carroll, Health Statistician and Lead Author of \u201cTotal and High-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol in Adults: United States, 2015\u20132018.\u201d Q: How has the prevalence of high total cholesterol among US adults changed since 1999-2000 data and and low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) since 2007-2008? MC: There has been a declining trend in the prevalence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32978,62268,50899,28904],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953"}],"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=6953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}