Table 9-1. – Mean plasma lipid levels, prevalence of borderline and high levels, and estimated population with abnormal levels, by sex and age group. ERICA-Brasil, 2013-2014.

Lipids	Mean		Borderline		High		Estimated population with abnormality
	mg/dL	95% CI	%	95% CI	%	95% CI
Total cholesterol
General population	148.1	147.1-149.1	24.2	22.7-25.8	20.1	19.0-21.3	2 940 705
Men	143.6	142.4-144.8	22.7	20.4-25.2	15.3	13.9-16.9	1 256 102
Women	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
General population	85.3	84.5-86.1	19.5	18.5-20.5	3.5	3.2-4.0	1 526 733
Men	83.4	82.2-84.5	17.4	16.0-18.9	2.9	2.3-3.6	669 805
Women	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	1058 856
Triglycerides
General population	77.8	76.5-79.2	12.0	11.0-13.0	7.8	7.1-8.6	1 312 329
Men	76.4	74.7-78.1	10.9	9.8-12.2	7.6	6.5-8.8	610 449
Women	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
HDLc	Mean		Low
General population	47.3	46.7-47.9	46.8	44.8-48.9	-	-	3 104 161
Men	44.9	44.4-45.5	55.9	53.7-58.2	-	-	1 256 003
Women	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

*Modified from Faria Neto et al. ³⁴⁹ LDLc: low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol; HDLc: high-density-lipoprotein cholesterol a: change = borderline + high values. b: Population estimates for the domains were obtained by processing the microdata from the 2000 and 2010 Demographic Census from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics.