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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2014 Aug 26;7(5):718–726. doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.114.000842

Table 5.

Lipid test results (mean, std dev) by age, sex, race/ethnicity and BMI category among children and adolescents aged 3-19 years old

Boys (N= 13956) Girls (N= 15404)
N (%) Total cholesterol (mg/dl) N=13965 HDL-C (mg/dl) N=12090 non-HDL-C (mg/dl) N=12090 Triglycerides geometric mean (mg/dl) N=3820 LDL-C (mg/dl) N=4538 N (%) Total Cholesterol (mg/dl) N=15404 HDL-C (mg/dl) N=13353 no n-HDL-C (mg/dl) N=13353 Triglycerides geometric mean (mg/dl) N=4392 LDL-C (mg/dl) N=5212
Age Group
    3-5 451 (3.2) 155.1 (29.5) 51.8 (12.0) 102.1 (25.4) 57.9 (45.6) 88.1 (23.0) 339 (2.2) 156.4 (27.0) 49.7 (0.6) 108.3 (25.3) 72.7(34.6) 100.8 (27.3)
    6-8 1106 (7.9) 162.5 (27.9) 51.4 (10.8) 110.9 (25.30 71.8 (50.2) 95.5 (22.3) 897 (5.82) 163.4 (33.4) 49.8 (11.3) 114.0 (32.9) 83.7 (54.0) 96.6 (23.3)
    9-11 2517 (18.0) 165.0 (31.2) 49.2 (10.9) 115.9 (30.1) 87.4 (68.4) 96.3 (26.2) 2008 (13.04) 160.3 (29.9) 46.8 (10.3) 114.3 (29.8) 103.3 (66.9) 94.5 (23.8)
    12-16 5843 (41.9) 154.9 (30.9) 44.4 (9.7) 111.2 (30.5) 90.2 (65.5) 92.4 (25.3) 6387 (41.46) 156.0 (28.8) 47.8 (10.2) 108.4 (28.2) 89.4 (62.3) 92.9 (25.1)
    17-19 4039 (28.9) 153.6 (31.2) 44.5 (9.7) 109.4 (31.2) 87.0 (65.7) 91.4 (26.7) 5773 (37.48) 162.0 (31.4) 51.9 (11.7) 110.6 (29.6) 81.2 (45.2) 94.3 (26.6)
Race
    White 4964 (35.6) 154.6 (30.8) 45.2 (10.1) 109.7 (30.2) 85.4 (65.7) 91.8 (26.5) 5974 (38.8) 161.5 (31.2) 50.2 (11.3) 111.7 (29.7) 86.8 (49.1) 94.6 (26.3)
    Asian 1255 (9.0) 161.2 (32.8) 48.8 (10.7) 112.6 (31.4) 91.4 (58.5) 93.9 (27.8) 1008 (6.5) 160.3 (28.7) 51.5 (10.7) 109.9 (28.5) 89.8 (49.6) 95.7 (27.5)
    Black 1203 (8.6) 157.3 (30.0) 48.1 (10.8) 110.2 (29.0) 73.7 (45.5) 96.2 (25.1) 1521 (9.9) 156.2 (29.1) 50.3 (10.8) 106.4 (28.0) 66.2 (33.1) 92.3 (25.0)
    Hispanic 2823 (20.2) 158.2 (31.2) 45.4 (10.5) 113.2 (30.1) 94.9 (68.0) 93.6 (24.8) 3044 (19.8) 157.2 (28.9) 47.5 (10.7) 110.2 (28.2) 92.6 (62.8) 92.6 (24.0)
    Other 193 (1.4) 158.4 (31.9) 45.4 (10.4) 112.7 (33.1) 97.7 (128.1) 89.2 (25.7) 237 (1.5) 159.5 (30.3) 48.1 (11.3) 112.2 (29.6) 91.6 (45.8) 97.1 (27.9)
    Missing 3518 (25.2) 157.6 (30.7) 46.3 (10.3) 111.4 (30.1) 87.3 (59.4) 92.5 (25.3) 3620 (23.5) 158.7 (30.8) 49.1 (11.1) 110.0 (30.0) 88.4 (70.3) 93.6 (25.3)
BMI Percentile
    < 85th 5544 (39.7) 149.0 (28.8) 48.7 (10.7) 100.0 (25.8) 71.0 (43.4) 86.1 (24.2) 6860 (44.5) 158.8 (30.8) 53.8 (11.3) 105.8 (29.0) 77.1 (40.7) 91.2 (25.5)
    85th- <95th 2057 (14.7) 156.7 (31.2) 47.2 (10.9) 110.1 (30.1) 86.5 (65.5) 94.8 (26.8) 2959 (19.2) 159.3 (30.6) 49.1 (10.5) 110.7 (29.2) 84.9 (64.4) 96.1 (27.1)
    ≥95th 6355 (45.5) 164.0 (31.3) 43.8 (9.5) 120.1 (30.6) 105.5 (74.8) 98.8 (25.8) 5585 (36.3) 160.1 (29.6) 44.9 (9.2) 115.3 (28.8) 101.1 (62.7) 96.5 (24.9)

Abbreviations: body mass index (BMI), HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C), LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C), standard deviation (std dev)