Table 5.

Lipids (means and standard deviation) and prevalence of hyperlipidaemia/dyslipidaemia using various cut-off points. Treatment for hyperlipidaemia.

Variable	Men born in 1953 50 years old n = 595	Women born in 1953 50 years old n = 667	Men born in 1943 60 years old n = 655
S-cholesterol mmol/l	5.50 (1.01)	5.44 (0.93)	5.38 (0.93)
HDL-cholesterol mmol/l	1.45 (0.38)	1.85 (0.45)	1.52 (0.39)
LDL-cholesterol mmol/l	3.31 (0.87)	3.05 (0.88)	3.18 (0.83)
S-triglycerides mmol/l	1.71 (1.18)	1.24 (1.14)	1.54 (0.92)
S-cholesterol <4.0 (%)	4.7	2.9	5.1
S-cholesterol ≥ 5.0 (%)	69.4	69.5	67.1
S-cholesterol ≥ 6.0 (%)	32.4	24.6	26.0
HDL-cholesterol ≤ 1.0 (%)	11.8	1.4	8.0
HDL-cholesterol ≥ 1.6 (%)	34.1	73.4	40.4
LDL-cholesterol ≤ 2.0 (%)	6.9	11.5	8.6
LDL-cholesterol ≥ 4.0 (%)	22.8	14.2	18.7
S-triglycerides ≥ 1.7 (%)	38.2	17.3	22.4
Treatment, drugs (%)	3.9	2.9	14.5
Treatment, diet only (%)	2.2	2.4	4.1

S = serum. HDL = high-density lipoprotein. LDL = low-density lipoprotein.

To convert cholesterol from mmo/l to mg/dl multiply by 38.7.

To convert triglycerides from mmol/l to mg/dl multiply by 88.6