Table 2. Prevalence of dyslipidaemia and its components in men and women and age groups by socioeconomic status.

Variables	SES group	Total (%)	Male (%)	Female (%)	<50 years (%)	≥50 years (%)
Dyslipidaemia	The poorest	73.04	64.22	75.81	68.50	76.99
	Poor	72.98	65.00	77.65	70.50	76.12
	Middle	72.52	67.45	77.07	71.01	75.10
	Rich	72.72	71.35	74.50	71.67	74.88
	The richest	70.68	70.29	71.83	70.05	72.59
	P for trend	0.116	<0.001	0.077	0.430	0.058
Hypercholesterolaemia	The poorest	39.91	32.54	42.22	30.82	47.83
	Poor	33.40	29.87	35.46	25.93	42.87
	Middle	29.35	26.20	32.17	24.07	38.37
	Rich	29.45	29.63	29.22	27.12	34.26
	The richest	25.94	26.47	24.34	24.39	30.67
	P for trend	<0.001	0.029	<0.001	0.010	<0.001
Hypertriglyceridaemia	The poorest	28.65	31.03	27.90	24.53	32.22
	Poor	31.00	34.71	28.82	28.40	34.29
	Middle	31.38	35.33	27.84	30.67	32.59
	Rich	33.14	37.51	27.47	32.15	35.19
	The richest	33.55	38.10	19.91	33.15	34.76
	P for trend	<0.001	0.003	0.009	<0.001	0.270
Hyper-LDL	The poorest	31.58	28.44	32.56	23.64	38.49
	Poor	27.01	23.37	29.14	21.00	34.64
	Middle	24.12	23.41	24.75	19.00	32.87
	Rich	24.64	25.24	23.86	22.61	28.83
	The richest	20.20	20.96	17.90	19.18	23.31
	P for trend	<0.001	0.008	<0.001	0.071	<0.001
Hypo-HDL	The poorest	44.13	32.97	47.63	47.07	41.57
	Poor	50.35	36.09	58.70	51.78	48.55
	Middle	51.85	44.79	58.18	52.97	49.93
	Rich	50.96	45.47	58.09	50.63	51.62
	The richest	48.51	46.10	55.73	49.46	45.60
	P for trend	0.009	<0.001	<0.001	0.727	0.006

Bold values are significant.

HDLhigh-density lipoproteinLDLlow-density lipoproteinSES, socioeconomic status