Trends in serum lipids among US youths aged 6 to 19 years, 1988-2010.

ABSTRACT:

Context

For more than 20 years, primary prevention of coronary heart disease has included strategies intended to improve overall serum lipid concentrations among youths.

Objective

To examine trends in lipid concentrations among youths from 1988-1994 through 2007-2010.

Design, setting, and participants

Cross-sectional analysis of serum lipid concentrations among 16,116 youths aged 6 to 19 years who participated in the nationally representative National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey during 3 time periods: 1988-1994, 1999-2002, and 2007-2010.

Main outcome measures

Among all youths, mean serum total cholesterol (TC), non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (non-HDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C); and among adolescents only, low-density

SUBMITTER: Kit BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11292404 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature