Serum Lipid Values and Age in Healthy Women: A Preliminary Report on Cholesterol

G. Z. Williams

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1634930

Methods of Information in Medicine, Table of Contents

Methods Inf Med 1993; 32(03): 219-221
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1634930

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Serum Lipid Values and Age in Healthy Women: A Preliminary Report on Cholesterol

G. Z. Williams

¹Geraldine Brush Cancer Research Institute, Medical Research Institutes, and Center for Preventive Medicine and Health Research, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

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Abstract

Abstract:

In a 20-year prospective study of the influence of lifestyle and age on health parameters in men’s and women’s serum cholesterol, tryiglycerides and high density and low density lipoproteins were measured periodically to determine each person’s longitudinal profile. The accumulated data for 1008 women of 20 to 70 years is averaged by five-year age brackets. Scatter plots and simple regression of these five-year group means for ages 20 to 45 years, reveals a gradual increase in serum cholesterol, increasing from 176 mg/dl to 196 with a slope of 0.61 mg/dl per year. Between ages 45 and 70, the slope increases substantially to 1.91 mg/dl per year, and the five-year group means rise from 196 at age 45 to 239 at age 70 in rather uniform increments. The data have been analyzed for the other lipids and the relationship to estrogen replacement, nutritional, and exercise habits.

Key-Words

Cholesterol - Women’s Health - Healthy Aging - Estrogen Replacement

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