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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 29.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2013 Nov 5;129(5):570–579. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.113.005757

Table 3.

Age-Standardized Prevalence Rates (Percent) of Dyslipidemia and Treatment stratified by Cardiovascular Disease (CHD, stroke, PVD)

Outcomes Non-Hispanic Whites Asian Indians Chinese Filipinos Japanese Koreans Vietnamese Mexicans Black/ Africans
History of Cardiovascular Disease (N=8,016)
Women
High LDL-C Ever 83.6 (81.1, 86.0) 85.0 (73.3, 96.8) 79.6 (71.7, 87.4) 92.7 (84.2, 100.0) 81.0 (68.0, 94.0) 98.2 (93.0, 100.0) 88.0 (--, --) 86.3 (76.1, 96.6) 84.2 (73.6, 94.8)
Low HDL-C ever 44.2 (40.6, 47.7) 60.8 (43.4, 78.3) 47.9 (37.6, 58.2) 44.6 (28.4, 60.8) 49.0 (31.2, 66.8) 44.6 (0.0, 92.4) 70.2 (34.1, 100.0) 64.6 (48.7, 80.5) 47.3 (31.7, 62.9)
High TG Ever 46.5 (42.9, 50.0) 51.9 (34.0, 69.9) 48.8 (38.4, 59.2) 55.2 (38.8, 71.6) 68.3 (51.6, 84.9) 62.4 (14.6, 100.0) 58.6 (10.7, 100.0) 63.8 (47.8, 79.9) 28.9 (14.5, 43.3)
Ever Treated by LLAs 64.9 (61.9, 67.8) 73.2 (59.1, 87.4) 62.8 (53.7, 71.9) 83.8 (71.4, 96.2) 70.6 (55.6, 85.7) 87.4 (68.2, 100.0) 76.4 (50.1,100.0) 72.8 (59.4, 86.2) 71.5 (58.0, 84.9)
Men
High LDL-C Ever 90.3 (88.6, 92.0) 94.8 (90.4, 99.1) 87.9 (82.6, 93.3) 96.8 (92.5, 100.0) 96.1 (89.0, 100.0) 98.6 (95.8, 100.0) 95.5 (85.2, 100.0) 89.4 (79.6,99.2) 89.7 (80.6,98.8)
Low HDL-C ever 48.4 (45.3, 51.4) 56.7 (46.6, 66.7) 42.5 (34.0, 51.1) 46.8 (30.8, 62.9) 40.0 (21.4, 58.5) 41.1 (16.7, 65.5) 46.5 (20.1,72.9) 61.1 (45.3, 76.9) 49.0 (28.1, 69.9)
High TG Ever 49.6 (46.6, 52.6) 53.3 (43.3, 63.4) 52.9 (44.4, 61.4) 65.9 (50.5, 81.3) 58.7 (40.8,76.7) 76.9 (57.0, 96.7) 45.0 (19.5,70.5) 58.6 (42.8, 74.5) 33.0 (12.7, 53.3)
Ever Treated by LLAs 79.4 (77.1, 81.7) 89.3 (83.3, 95.2) 80.7 (74.3, 87.1) 93.8 (87.8, 99.8) 89.2 (77.5,100.0) 97.6 (94.2, 100.0) 79.8 (60.6, 99.0) 78.3 (65.9, 90.8) 82.6 (71.7, 93.6)

No History of Cardiovascular Disease (N=161,414)
Women
High LDL-C Ever 50.9 (50.1,51.6) 53.1 (50.2, 56.0) 44.2 (42.6, 45.8) 61.4 (58.5, 64.2) 52.7 (48.9, 56.5) 49.5 (43.0,55.9) 54.7 (49.5,60.0) 54.8 (51.3, 58.3) 54.9 (50.3, 59.5)
Low HDL-C ever 30.0 (29.2,30.8) 54.5 (51.3, 57.7) 31.1 (29.5, 32.7) 36.8 (33.7, 40.0) 22.7 (19.2, 26.1) 33.8 (26.9,40.7) 36.3 (30.9,41.7) 49.8 (46.1,53.6) 38.6 (33.9,43.3)
High TG Ever 26.6 (25.9,27.3) 36.6 (33.5, 39.7) 29.0 (27.5, 30.6) 40.7 (37.6, 43.9) 34.6 (30.7, 38.4) 28.3 (21.8,34.8) 37.9 (32.5,43.2) 44.3 (40.7, 48.0) 17.5 (13.8, 21.2)
Ever Treated by LLAs 16.5 (16.0, 17.0) 18.4 (16.2, 20.6) 13.4 (12.4, 14.5) 27.9 (25.4, 30.3) 17.4 (14.9, 19.9) 15.4 (10.8, 20.1) 18.7 (14.5, 22.9) 22.0 (19.2, 24.8) 21.6 (18.1, 25.0)
Men
High LDL-C Ever 59.9 (59.1, 60.7) 63.0 (60.7, 65.3) 53.4 (51.6, 55.2) 71.0 (67.5, 74.6) 63.4 (58.4, 68.4) 52.8 (44.6, 61.0) 69.4 (64.2, 74.7) 63.8 (59.7, 67.8) 61.0 (55.8, 66.2)
Low HDL-C ever 34.7 (33.9, 35.5) 52.1 (49.6, 54.6) 33.7 (32.0, 35.4) 36.2 (32.3, 40.1) 25.6 (21.0, 30.2) 28.1 (20.9, 35.2) 32.7 (27.3, 38.2) 46.9 (42.6, 51.3) 33.0 (28.0, 38.1)
High TG Ever 42.0 (41.1, 42.8) 55.3 (52.8, 57.8) 48.6 (46.8, 50.4) 59.8 (55.9, 63.7) 52.3 (47.0, 57.5) 52.3 (44.1,60.6) 56.7 (51.0, 62.4) 56.0 (51.7, 60.3) 29.2 (24.3, 34.1)
Ever Treated by LLAs 22.6 (22.0, 23.2) 28.4 (26.3, 30.4) 18.5 (17.2, 19.8) 34.7 (31.3, 38.1) 24.8 (20.9, 28.7) 19.6 (13.3, 25.9) 27.0 (22.2,31.7) 27.0 (23.5, 30.4) 27.3 (23.0, 31.5)

Data are percent with 99% CI; --small sample size

CHD = Coronary Heart Disease, PVD = Peripheral Vascular Disease, HDL-C = high density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C = low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; TG= triglycerides; LLAs=LDL-lowering agents.