title: Prevalence of dyslipidemias in the Mexican National Health and Nutrition Survey 2006.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México, DF, México.
authors.forename: Carlos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Aguilar-Salinas
authors.forename: Francisco J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Gómez-Pérez
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rull
authors.forename: Salvador
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Villalpando
authors.forename: Simón
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Barquera
authors.forename: Rosalba
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rojas
mesh_terms: 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