Official Statistics
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Updated 27 October 2011
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| Table 4 |
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| Blood lipids, by age and sex |
| Aged 11-64 years |
| Analyte |
| Serum total cholesterol (mmol/L)1 |
| Mean |
| Median |
| sd |
| Upper 2.5 percentile |
| Lower 2.5 percentile |
| Serum high density lipoprotein-cholesterol (mmol/L)2 |
| Mean |
| Median |
| sd |
| Upper 2.5 percentile |
| Lower 2.5 percentile |
| Serum low density lipoprotein-cholesterol (mmol/L)3,a |
| Mean |
| Median |
| sd |
| Upper 2.5 percentile |
| Lower 2.5 percentile |
| Bases (unweighted) |
| 1 Serum total |
| cholesterol (mmol/L) |
| 2 Serum high density |
| lipoprotein-cholesterol (mmol/L) |
| 3 Serum low density |
| lipoprotein-cholesterol (mmol/L)a |
| a LDL was calculated using the Friedewald equation: LDL (mmol/L) = Total Cholesterol – HDL Cholesterol – (triglycerides/2.2). LDL was not calculated for samples with triglyceride values greater than 4.5mmol/L, therefore LDL was not calculated for 6 men and 1 women aged 19-64 years. |