Table 3. Averages and 95%CI of plasma lipids, and prevalence and 95%CI of threshold values and values altered by gender and age range and estimated altered populationa,b. ERICA, Brazil, 2013-2014.

Lipids	Average		Threshold		High		Population estimated with alterations
	mg/dl	95%CI	%	95%CI	%	95%CI
Total cholesterol
All	148.1	147.1-149.1	24.2	22.7-25.8	20.1	19.0-21.3	2,940,705
Male	143.6	142.4-144.8	22.7	20.4-25.2	15.3	13.9-16.9	1,256,102
Female	152.6	151.4-153.9	25.7	24.5-27.0	24.9	23.4-26.5	1,684,602
12-14 years	149.4	148.0-150.7	25.8	24.3-27.4	20.7	19.1-22.5	937,793
15-17 years	147.1	145.8-148.3	22.8	20.8-24.9	19.6	18.0-21.2	2,002,911
LDLc
All	85.3	84.5-86.1	19.5	18.5-20.5	3.5	3.2-4.0	1,526,733
Male	83.4	82.2-84.5	17.4	16.0-18.9	2.9	2.3-3.6	669,805
Female	87.2	86.3-88.1	21.5	20.2-22.9	4.3	3.7-4.9	856,928
12-14 years	86.2	85.1-87.3	20.6	19.0-22.4	3.7	3.1-4.4	467,877
15-17 years	84.5	83.5-85.5	18.4	17.2-19.7	3.4	2.9-4.1	1,058,856
Triglycerides
All	77.8	76.5-79.2	12.0	11.0-13.0	7.8	7.1-8.6	1,312,329
Male	76.4	74.7-78.1	10.9	9.8-12.2	7.6	6.5-8.8	610,449
Female	79.3	77.8-80.7	13.0	11.8-14.2	8.1	7.3-9.0	701,880
12-14 years	78.9	76.7-81.0	12.7	11.0-14.6	8.3	7.2-9.5	434,638
15-17 years	76.9	75.8-78.1	11.3	10.2-12.4	7.4	6.6-8.4	877,690
			Low %
HDLc
All	47.3	46.7-47.9	46.8	44.8-48.9	-	-	3,104,161
Male	44.9	44.4-45.5	55.9	53.7-58.2	-	-	1,256,003
Female	49.6	48.9-50.3	37.8	35.4-40.2	-	-	1,848,158
12-14 years	47.4	46.7-48.1	45.0	42.3-47.8	-	-	819,980
15-17 years	47.2	46.4-48.0	48.4	45.9-50.8	-	-	2,284,181

LDLc: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDLc: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol

^a alteration = higher threshold values.

^b The population estimates for the domains were obtained through the processing of microdata from IBGE’s Demographic Sensuses 2000 and 2010.