Prevalence of dyslipidemias in the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006.
OBJECTIVE
To describe the prevalence of lipid abnormalities found in the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006 (ENSANut 2006).


METHODS
Information was obtained from 4 040 subjects aged 20 to 69 years, studied after a 9- to 12-hour fast.


RESULTS
Median lipid concentrations were: cholesterol 198.5 mg/dl, triglycerides 139.6 mg/dl, HDL-cholesterol 39.0 mg/dl, non-HDL-cholesterol 159.5 mg/dl and LDL-cholesterol 131.5 mg/dl. The most frequent abnormality was HDL-cholesterol below 40 mg/dl with a prevalence of 60.5% (95%CI 58.2-62.8%). Hypercholesterolemia (> 200 mg/dl) had a frequency of abnormality of 43.6% (95%CI 41.4-46.0%). Only 8.6% of the hypercholesterolemic subjects knew their diagnosis. Hypertriglyceridemia (>or= 150 mg/dl) was observed in 31.5% (IC 95% 29.3-33.9%) of the population.


CONCLUSIONS
The ENSANUT 2006 data confirm that the prevalence of hypoalphalipoproteinemia and other forms of dyslipidemia in Mexican adults is very high.
Aguilar-Salinas
Carlos A
CA
Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, DF, México.
Gómez-Pérez
Francisco J
FJ
Rull
Juan
J
Villalpando
Salvador
S
Barquera
Simón
S
Rojas
Rosalba
R
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D050171:Dyslipidemias / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005215:Fasting / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology; D015228:Hypertriglyceridemia / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology; D052456:Hypoalphalipoproteinemias / Q000097:blood / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008800:Mexico / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D015995:Prevalence; D012307:Risk Factors; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D055815:Young Adult