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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 127, No. 4: 753-761
Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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SEX DIFFERENCES IN HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL IN URBAN BLACKS

EARL FORD1, RICHARD COOPER2,, BRIAN SIMMONS2, SHERRY KATZ2 and RASHMI PATEL2

1Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago 835 S. Wolcott Ave., Chicago, IL
2Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Division of Adult Cardiology, Cook County Hospital 1835 W Harrison St., Chicago, IL 60612

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Descriptive data on high density Iipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in the black urban population of the United States are limited. We examined 119 men and 130 women aged 21–70 years who were attending a screening clinic at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, in 1985–1986 for minor complaints; all participants were black. For men, lipid values were: total cholesterol, 209.5 ± 50.6, HDL cholesterol, 55.2 ± 16.5; for women, values were: total cholesterol, 215.6 ± 47.4, HDL cholesterol, 59.2 ± 17.2. Correlates of HDL cholesterol were different in men and women. Alcohol consumption and body mass index were significantly related to HDL cholesterol in men; however, education was the only significant factor among women. It was anticipated that the increased obesity among the women in this sample (mean body mass index, 31 kg/m2; range, 18.4–50.0 kg/m2 compared with men (mean body mass index, 27 kg/m2; range, 19.4–45.0 kg/m2) would explain part of the narrowing of the gap between the sexes in HDL cholesterol values. The association between HDL cholesterol and body mass index among women, however, was weak and nonsignificant The increased susceptibility of black women to coronary artery disease has not been adequately explained and undoubtedly reflects a complicated interaction of epidemiologic factors

blacks; cholesterol; coronary disease; lipids; lipoproteins; HDL; obesity; sex


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