Table 8-1. – Mean plasma lipid levels, prevalence of borderline and high lipid levels, and estimated population with abnormal lipid levels, by sex and age group. ERICA-Brasil, 2013-2014.

Lipids	Mean		Borderline		High		Estimated population with abnormality
	mg/dL	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI
Total cholesterol
General population	148.1	147.1-149.1	24.2	22.7-25.8	20.1	19.0-21.3	2 940 705
Men	143.6	142.4-144.8	22.7	20.4-25.2	15.3	13.9-16.9	1 256 102
Women	152.6	151.4-153.9	25.7	24.5-27.0	24.9	23.4-26.5	1 684 602
12-14 years	149.4	148.0-150.7	25.8	24.3-27.4	20.7	19.1-22.5	937 793
15-17 years	147.1	145.8-148.3	22.8	20.8-24.9	19.6	18.0-21.2	2 002 911
LDLc
General population	85.3	84.5-86.1	19.5	18.5-20.5	3.5	3.2-4.0	1 526 733
Men	83.4	82.2-84.5	17.4	16.0-18.9	2.9	2.3-3.6	669 805
Women	87.2	86.3-88.1	21.5	20.2-22.9	4.3	3.7-4.9	856 928
12-14 years	86.2	85.1-87.3	20.6	19.0-22.4	3.7	3.1-4.4	467 877
15-17 years	84.5	83.5-85.5	18.4	17.2-19.7	3.4	2.9-4.1	1058 856
Triglycerides
General population	77.8	76.5-79.2	12.0	11.0-13.0	7.8	7.1-8.6	1 312 329
Men	76.4	74.7-78.1	10.9	9.8-12.2	7.6	6.5-8.8	610 449
Women	79.3	77.8-80.7	13.0	11.8-14.2	8.1	7.3-9.0	701 880
12-14 years	78.9	76.7-81.0	12.7	11.0-14.6	8.3	7.2-9.5	434 638
15-17 years	76.9	75.8-78.1	11.3	10.2-12.4	7.4	6.6-8.4	877 690
HDLc	Mean		Low
General population	47.3	46.7-47.9	46.8	44.8-48.9	-	-	3 104 161
Men	44.9	44.4-45.5	55.9	53.7-58.2	-	-	1 256 003
Women	49.6	48.9-50.3	37.8	35.4-40.2	-	-	1 848 158
12-14 years	47.4	46.7-48.1	45.0	42.3-47.8	-	-	819 980
15-17 years	47.2	46.4-48.0	48.4	45.9-50.8	-	-	2 284 181

LDLc: low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol; HDLc: high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol a: change = borderline + high levels. b: Population estimates for the domains were obtained by processing the microdata from the 2000 and 2010 Demographic Census from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics. Modified from Faria Neto JR et al. ²⁷⁶