Prevalence of altered total cholesterol and fractions in the Brazilian adult population: National Health Survey.
Déborah Carvalho MaltaCelia Szwarcwald LandmannIsis Eloah MachadoCimar Azeredo PereiraAndré Willian FigueiredoAna Carolina Micheletti Gomide Nogueira De SáJorge Gustavo Velásquez MeléndezFilipe Malta Dos SantosPaulo Roberto Borges de Souza-JuniorSheila Rizzato StopaLuiz Gastão RosenfeldPublished in: Revista brasileira de epidemiologia = Brazilian journal of epidemiology (2019)
Altered values of total cholesterol and fractions were frequent in the Brazilian population, especially among women, the elderly and people with low levels of education. These results may guide control and preventative actions such as healthy eating, physical activity and treatment, all of which aim to prevent coronary diseases.
Keyphrases
- physical activity
- quality improvement
- low density lipoprotein
- coronary artery disease
- healthcare
- coronary artery
- polycystic ovary syndrome
- risk factors
- body mass index
- weight loss
- type diabetes
- pregnancy outcomes
- metabolic syndrome
- community dwelling
- depressive symptoms
- ejection fraction
- smoking cessation
- aortic stenosis
- aortic valve