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Published in final edited form as: J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2009 May-Jun;20(3):176–183. doi: 10.1016/j.jana.2009.02.004

Table 3.

Six-Month Change in Lipid Profile by Alcohol and Race/Ethnicity

Hispanics Whites Blacks
Variables Nonhazardous
N = 26		 Hazardous
N = 30		 Nonhazardous
N = 8		 Hazardous
N = 6		 Nonhazardous
N = 42		 Hazardous
N = 52
Total cholesterol mg/dl 9.8 ± 51 22.2 ± 6.5* 12.8 ± 6 18.2 ± 16 5.9 ± 4.5 8.3 ± 7.0
LDL mg/dl 3.8 ± 3.6 8 ± 5 1.9 ± 1.2 2.9 ± .6 3.4 ± 4.4 4.1 ± 6.1
HDL mg/dl .4 ± 2.2 2.5 ± 2.4 7.4 ± 5.7 28 ± 4 .028 ± 1.4 1.3 ± 1.9
Triglycerides mg/dl 52.5 ± 48.7 99.5 ± 81 73.7 ± 33.7 75.5 ± 43 −10 ± 8.8 −6.6 ± 1

NOTE: HDL = high-density lipoprotein, LDL = low-density lipoprotein.