Table 2.

Proportions of men and women with hypercholesterolemia and hypertriglyceridemia during the baseline and 10-year follow-up periods in the Västerbotten Intervention Programme

Groups*	Men		Women
	Baseline	10-year follow-up	Baseline	10-year follow-up
Hypercholesterolemia (%)
30-year-old panel
Basic education	13.2 (9.5–18.2)	10.9 (7.5–15.7)	4.4 (2.4–7.9)	4.1 (2.1–7.6)
Medium education	8.8 (7.6–10.1)	9.4 (8.2–10.8)	5.1 (4.2–6.2)	3.1 (2.4–4.0)
High education	8.4 (6.0–11.6)	7.8 (5.5–11.1)	4.6 (3.3–6.3)	1.5 (0.8–2.6)
40-year-old panel
Basic education	22.4 (20.0–25.0)	21.8 (19.4–24.4)	10.3 (8.6–12.3)	13.6 (11.6–15.8)
Medium education	19.1 (17.9–20.3)	17.1 (16.0–18.3)	9.3 (8.4–10.2)	12.1 (11.2–13.2)
High education	15.6 (13.8–17.5)	14.5 (12.8–16.4)	6.5 (5.7–7.6)	9.4 (8.4–10.6)
50-year-old panel
Basic education	31.4 (29.5–33.3)	26.6 (24.8–28.4)	26.4 (24.7–28.2)	30.3 (28.5–32.1)
Medium education	28.3 (26.7–29.9)	25.0 (23.5–26.5)	20.8 (19.5–22.2)	28.1 (26.6–29.6)
High education	23.6 (21.4–26.0)	21.8 (19.7–24.1)	18.0 (16.4–19.7)	24.6 (22.8–26.5)
Hypertriglyceridemia (%)
30-year-old panel
Basic education	23.8 (18.0–30.8)	28.6 (23.1–35.0)	16.6 (12.0–22.4)	19.7 (15.0–25.5)
Medium education	23.4 (21.2–25.7)	29.8 (27.8–31.8)	11.2 (9.7–12.8)	10.5 (9.1–11.9)
High education	16.9 (11.9–23.3)	22.3 (18.3–26.9)	7.7 (5.8–10.1)	6.4 (4.8–8.4)
40-year-old panel
Basic education	34.2 (31.0–37.5)	34.6 (31.7–37.6)	13.8 (11.7–16.2)	21.5 (19.1–24.1)
Medium education	28.1 (26.6–29.7)	32.7 (31.3–34.2)	11.6 (10.6–12.7)	16.8 (15.7–18.0)
High education	24.1 (21.4–27.1)	26.1 (23.9–28.4)	7.9 (6.8–9.1)	12.0 (10.8–13.3)
50-year-old panel
Basic education	34.2 (32.0–36.4)	30.5 (28.7–32.4)	20.6 (19.0–22.4)	26.9 (25.2–28.7)
Medium education	32.5 (30.7–34.4)	29.5 (28.0–31.1)	17.4 (16.1–18.9)	25.2 (23.8–26.7)
High education	26.4 (23.7–29.4)	27.3 (25.0–29.7)	12.6 (11.1–14.3)	17.8 (16.2–19.5)

*Age of panel is age at baseline survey