Table 8-3. – Prevalence of low HDLc (< 40 mg/dL) according to sex, age group, educational level, skin color, and Brazilian region, PNS 2014-2015.

	Total			Men			Women
	%	95% CI	P	%	95% CI	p	%	95% CI	p
Total	31.8	30.5 - 33.1		42.8	40.6 - 45.0		22.0	20.6 - 23.5	< 0.001
Age group (years)
18 - 29	29.1	26.2 - 32.2	0.070	39.7	34.9 - 44.7	0.159	18.7	15.9 - 21.9	0.046
30 - 44	31.8	29.4 - 34.2		41.8	37.9 - 45.7		23.0	20.4 - 25.9
45 - 59	34.1	31.6 - 36.6		44.8	40.9 - 48.8		24.3	21.5 - 27.4
≥ 60	32.4	29.8 - 35.2		46.5	42.1 - 51.1		21.5	18.7 - 24.6
Educational level (school years)
0 - 8	33.7	31.8 - 35.7	< 0.001	43.3	40.2 - 46.4	0.006	24.9	22.8 - 27.2	< 0.001
9 - 11	38.5	34.9 - 42.2		50.0	44.3 - 55.6		27.0	22.9 - 31.5
≥ 12	27.8	25.9 - 29.9		39.6	36.2 - 43.2		18.1	16.1 - 20.3
Skin color
White	31.0	29.0 - 33.1	0.072	43.0	39.7 - 46.5	0.586	20.6	18.4 - 23.0	0.006
Black	28.5	24.3 - 33.2		41.8	34.5 - 49.4		16.6	12.6 - 21.6
Mixed	33.5	31.7 - 35.4		43.0	40.0 - 46.1		24.8	22.8 - 27.0
Others	24.7	15.8 - 36.5		27.7	15.1 - 45.2		22.7	11.6 - 39.5
Country region
North	36.6	34.4 - 38.8	< 0.001	47.2	43.7 - 50.7	0.036	26.7	24.2 - 29.4	< 0.001
Northeast	34.8	33.0 - 36.6		44.3	41.4 - 47.2		26.4	24.3 - 28.6
Southeast	30.8	28.3 - 33.4		43.1	38.9 - 47.3		20.0	17.4 - 22.9
South	26.1	23.3 - 29.0		36.3	31.6 - 41.2		16.8	14.1 - 20.0
West-Central	34.3	31.1 - 37.6		45.0	39.8 - 50.3		24.7	21.2 - 28.6

HDLc: high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol. Source: Malta et al. 2019. ²⁷⁵