Plasma lipids in a London population and their relation to other risk factors for coronary heart disease.

Abstract

Fasting plasma total cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations and high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol concentrations have been measured in a random sample of 502 men and 503 women London local government employees, aged 16 to 64 years. In subjects aged 35 to 54 years, the frequency of 'hypercholesterolaemia', defined by one recently recommended criterion of plasma cholesterol .7-1 mmol/l, was 28-0 per cent in the men and 30 4 per cent in the women. The frequency of 'hypertriglyceridaemia' (plasma triglyceride >2-0 mmol/l) in the same age group was 24 8 per cent for the men and 6-0 per cent for the women.