Journal article
COMPARING MEAN LEVELS OF TOTAL CHOLESTEROL FROM VISIT 2 OF THE LIPID RESEARCH CLINICS PREVALENCE STUDY WITH THE SECOND NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEY
American journal of epidemiology, Vol.128(5), pp.1038-1053
11/1988
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115048
PMID: 3189280
Abstract
Mean levels of total cholesterol by sex and age were compared between groups of whites in visit 2 of the Lipid Research Clinics Program Prevalence Study and in the second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II). NHANES II estimates were found to be higher than comparable visit 2 estimates by 3–14 mg/dl for males and by 11–21 mg/dl for females. Adjustment for the use of differing components of blood in making the lipid determinations in the two studies (plasma in visit 2 and serum in NHANES II) reduced the original differences by roughly one half. Other adjustments—for operational differences among laboratories that performed the blood sample analysis in the two studies, for educational differences in the study populations, and for inclusion of data from a Toronto clinic in the visit 2 data—were collectively found to explain most of the remaining differences between visit 2 and NHANES II, especially for males.
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- Title: Subtitle
- COMPARING MEAN LEVELS OF TOTAL CHOLESTEROL FROM VISIT 2 OF THE LIPID RESEARCH CLINICS PREVALENCE STUDY WITH THE SECOND NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEY
- Creators
- WILLIAM D. Kalsbeek - University of North Carolina at Chapel HillKENNETH M. Kral - Collaborative Studies Coordinating Center, Department of Biostatistics, University of North CarolinaChapel Hill, NCROBERT B. Wallace - University of IowaBASIL M. Rifkind - National Heart Lung and Blood Institute
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- American journal of epidemiology, Vol.128(5), pp.1038-1053
- DOI
- 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a115048
- PMID
- 3189280
- NLM abbreviation
- Am J Epidemiol
- ISSN
- 0002-9262
- eISSN
- 1476-6256
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/1988
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology; Injury Prevention Research Center; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984363581002771
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