Table 9-4. – Prevalence of high LDL-cholesterol (> 130 mg/dL) according to sex, age group, educational level, skin color, and Brazilian region, PNS 2014-2015.

	Total			Men			Women
	%	95% CI	p	%	95% CI	p	%	95% CI	p
Total	18.6	17.5 - 19.7		17.1	15.6 - 18.8		19.9	18.5 - 21.3	0.012
Age group (years)
18 - 29	8.8	7.2 - 10.7	< 0.001	6.6	4.8 - 9.0	< 0.001	11.0	8.7 - 14.0	< 0.001
30 - 44	17.5	15.7 - 19.5		20.2	17.3 - 23.6		15.2	13.0 - 17.6
45 - 59	25.6	23.3 - 27.9		23.2	20.0 - 26.7		27.7	24.7 - 30.9
≥ 60	24.5	22.2 - 27.0		19.5	16.3 - 23.2		28.4	25.1 - 31.9
Education (school years)
0 - 8	21.5	20.0 - 23.2	< 0.001	17.8	15.7 - 20.1	0.525	24.9	22.8 - 27.2	< 0.001
9 - 11	16.8	14.3 - 19.7		15.2	11.8 - 19.3		18.5	15.0 - 22.6
≥ 12	16.7	15.1 - 18.4		17.2	14.8 - 20.0		16.2	14.2 - 18.4
Skin color
White	20.1	18.5 - 21.9	0.009	18.8	16.4 - 21.4	0.131	21.3	19.1 - 23.8	0.095
Black	16.6	13.6 - 20.2		15.2	10.9 - 20.8		17.9	13.9 - 22.7
Mixed	17.4	16.1 - 18.8		15.9	13.9 - 18.1		18.8	17.0 - 20.7
Others	10.1	6.0 - 16.6		8.6	3.6 - 19.1		11.2	5.7 - 20.7
Country region
North	16.2	14.7 - 17.9	0.136	15.5	13.2 - 18.1	0.355	17.0	14.9 - 19.2	0.195
Northeast	19.8	18.4 - 21.3		17.5	15.5 - 19.8		21.9	19.9 - 23.9
Southeast	17.9	16.0 - 19.9		16.1	13.4 - 19.3		19.4	16.8 - 22.2
South	20.0	17.6 - 22.6		19.8	16.2 - 24.0		20.1	17.1 - 23.5
West-Central	17.8	15.4 - 20.4		17.8	14.3 - 21.9		17.8	14.8 - 21.3

Source: Malta et al.348