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Cholesterol levels in the US continue to decline

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Carroll MD et al. (2005) Trends in serum lipids and lipoproteins of adults, 1960–2002. JAMA 294: 1773–1781

During the 1990s, analysis of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys demonstrated a consistent decline in mean total cholesterol levels in US adults between 1960 and 1994 and a decrease in mean LDL cholesterol (available from 1976) between 1976 and 1994. With the availability of data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2000, Carroll et al. analyzed trends among US adults in total cholesterol (between 1960 and 2002) and HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and serum triglyceride (between 1976 and 2002), focusing on changes between 1988–1994 and 1999–2002.

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Doherty, R. Cholesterol levels in the US continue to decline. Nat Rev Endocrinol 2, 6–7 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpendmet0063

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