{"id":6971,"date":"2020-06-05T09:12:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T13:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4990"},"modified":"2020-06-05T09:12:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T13:12:02","slug":"quickstats-prevalence-of-high-total-cholesterol-among-adults-aged-20-years-or-older-by-age-group-and-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2020\/06\/05\/6971\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Prevalence of High Total Cholesterol Among Adults Aged 20 Years or Older by Age Group and Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6922a5.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/figures\/mm6922a5-F.gif\" width=\"448\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During 2015\u20132018, the prevalence of high total cholesterol among adults aged 20 years or older was 11.4%, with no significant difference between men (10.5%) and women (12.1%). Prevalence was highest among adults aged 40\u201359 years (15.7%), followed by those aged 60 years or older (11.4%), and lowest among those aged 20\u201339 years (7.5%).<\/p>\n<p>Among men, the prevalence was highest among those aged 40\u201359 years (14.5%), followed by those aged 20\u201339 years (9.5%), and lowest among those aged 60 years or older (6.0%).<\/p>\n<p>Among women, the pattern was different, with women aged 20\u201339 years (5.5%) having a lower prevalence than either women aged 40\u201359 years (16.9%) or women aged 60 years or older (15.9%).<\/p>\n<p>Prevalence among women aged 20\u201339 years was lower than that among men in this age group, but prevalence was higher among women aged 60 years or older than it was among men of that age group. There was no significant difference between men and women for adults aged 40\u201359 years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Sources<\/b>: Carroll MD, Fryar CD. Total and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in adults: United States, 2015\u20132018. NCHS Data Brief, no 363.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db363.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/products\/databriefs\/db363.htm<\/a>. National Center for Health Statistics, National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2015\u20132018.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhanes.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6922a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/69\/wr\/mm6922a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During 2015\u20132018, the prevalence of high total cholesterol among adults aged 20 years or older was 11.4%, with no significant difference between men (10.5%) and women (12.1%). Prevalence was highest among adults aged 40\u201359 years (15.7%), followed by those aged 60 years or older (11.4%), and lowest among those aged 20\u201339 years (7.5%). Among men,<\/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\/6971"}],"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=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}