Table 3.

Fraction (%) of subjects by changes in risk factors between 1986 and 2001 and Pathobiological Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth (PDAY) risk score change in 1240 subjects not taking lipid lowering or anti-hypertensive medication in 2001

Risk factor	Risk factor change 1986 to 2001	Fraction (%) of subjects by changes in risk factors 1986 to 2001
		PDAY risk score change between 1986 and 2001			Overall
		≤-2 (n=151)	-1 to 1 (n=504)	≥2 (n=585)	(n=1240)
Non-HDL cholesterol	Decreased	64.9	10.5	2.9	13.6
	No change	23.2	79.8	15.6	42.6
	Increased	11.9	9.7	81.5	43.9
HDL cholesterol	Decreased	19.9	42.1	50.4	43.3
	No change	71.5	50.6	46.7	51.3
	Increased	8.6	7.3	2.9	5.4
Smoking	Smoker to nonsmoker	11.3	7.5	6.2	7.3
	No change	84.1	84.7	77.6	81.3
	Nonsmoker to smoker	4.6	7.7	16.2	11.4
Blood pressure	Hypertensive to normotensive	41.7	6.9	1.9	8.8
	No change	58.3	92.3	72.7	78.9
	Normotensive to hypertensive	0	0.8	25.5	12.3
Hyperglycemia/diabetes	Hyperglycemic/diabetic to normoglycemic/nondiabetic	0	0	0	0
	No change	100.0	100.0	99.2	99.6
	Normoglycemic/nondiabetic to hyperglycemic/diabetic	0	0	0.9	0.4
Obesity	Men,	n=57	n=165	n=346	n=568
	Obese to non-obese	0	0	0	0
	No change	100.0	100.0	81.2	88.6
	Non-obese to obese	0	0	18.8	11.4
	Women,	n=94	n=339	n=239	n=672
	Obese to non-obese	0	0.3	0.4	0.3
	No change	95.7	91.5	79.5	87.8
	Non-obese to obese	4.3	8.3	20.1	11.9