Table 8-2. – Prevalence of total cholesterol ≥ 200 mg/dL according to sex, age group, educational level, skin color, and country region. Brazil, PNS 2014-2015.

	Total				Men			Women
	%	95% CI	p		%	95% CI	p	%	95% CI	p
Total	32.7	31.5 - 34.1			30.1	28.2 - 32.1		35.1	33.4 - 36.8	< 0.001
Age group (years)
18 - 29	17.9	15.7 - 20.4		< 0.001	13.9	11.2 - 17.4	< 0.001	21.9	18.7 - 25.5	< 0.001
30 - 44	31.0	28.7 - 33.4			34.9	31.2 - 38.8		27.6	24.9 - 30.5
45 - 59	43.4	40.8 - 46.0			39.4	35.7 - 43.4		47.0	43.5 - 50.5
≥ 60	41.9	39.1 - 44.8			33.5	29.5 - 37.9		48.4	44.7 - 52.2
Educational level (school years)
0 - 8	37.1	35.2 - 39.1		< 0.001	31.6	28.9 - 34.5	0.237	42.2	39.6 - 44.8	< 0.001
9 - 11	28.6	25.5 - 32.0			26.6	22.2 - 31.6		30.6	26.4 - 35.2
≥ 12	30.4	28.4 - 32.5			30.0	26.9 - 33.3		30.8	28.3 - 33.4
Skin color
White	33.9	31.9 - 36.0		0.146	30.8	27.8 - 33.9	0.669	36.6	33.9 - 39.4	0.196
Black	33.2	29.0 - 37.6			30.0	23.9 - 37.0		36.0	30.5 - 41.8
Mixed	31.5	29.8 - 33.3			29.5	26.9 - 32.4		33.4	31.1 - 35.7
Others	23.3	14.8 - 34.6			19.6	9.7 - 35.4		25.8	14.2 - 42.2
Region
North	32.5	30.4 - 34.6		0.195	31.0	27.9 - 34.3	0.376	33.9	31.2 - 36.7	0.291
Northeast	34.0	32.3 - 35.8			30.2	27.7 - 33.0		37.4	35.1 - 39.8
Southeast	31.5	29.1 - 34.1			28.7	25.1 - 32.6		34.1	30.9 - 37.4
South	34.7	31.7 - 37.8			33.4	28.9 - 38.3		35.8	32.0 - 39.8
West-Central	31.7	28.7 - 34.8			30.1	25.7 - 34.9		33.0	29.1 - 37.2

Source: Malta et al. 2019. ²⁷⁵