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National trends in total cholesterol obscure heterogeneous changes in HDL and non-HDL cholesterol and total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio: a pooled analysis of 458 population-based studies in Asian and Western countries.
- Source :
- International Journal of Epidemiology; Feb2020, Vol. 49 Issue 1, p173-192, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- <bold>Background: </bold>Although high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and non-HDL cholesterol have opposite associations with coronary heart disease, multi-country reports of lipid trends only use total cholesterol (TC). Our aim was to compare trends in total, HDL and non-HDL cholesterol and the total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio in Asian and Western countries.<bold>Methods: </bold>We pooled 458 population-based studies with 82.1 million participants in 23 Asian and Western countries. We estimated changes in mean total, HDL and non-HDL cholesterol and mean total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio by country, sex and age group.<bold>Results: </bold>Since ∼1980, mean TC increased in Asian countries. In Japan and South Korea, the TC rise was due to rising HDL cholesterol, which increased by up to 0.17 mmol/L per decade in Japanese women; in China, it was due to rising non-HDL cholesterol. TC declined in Western countries, except in Polish men. The decline was largest in Finland and Norway, at ∼0.4 mmol/L per decade. The decline in TC in most Western countries was the net effect of an increase in HDL cholesterol and a decline in non-HDL cholesterol, with the HDL cholesterol increase largest in New Zealand and Switzerland. Mean total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio declined in Japan, South Korea and most Western countries, by as much as ∼0.7 per decade in Swiss men (equivalent to ∼26% decline in coronary heart disease risk per decade). The ratio increased in China.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>HDL cholesterol has risen and the total-to-HDL cholesterol ratio has declined in many Western countries, Japan and South Korea, with only a weak correlation with changes in TC or non-HDL cholesterol. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- WESTERN countries
CHOLESTEROL
RATIO analysis
ASIAN studies
TRIGLYCERIDES
BLOOD lipids
HIGH density lipoproteins
BLOOD cholesterol
AGE distribution
COMPARATIVE studies
LIPIDS
LOW density lipoproteins
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
PUBLIC health surveillance
RESEARCH
SEX distribution
WHITE people
EVALUATION research
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03005771
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Epidemiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 142579922
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyz099