Trends of Elevated Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, Awareness, and Screening Among Young Adults in the US, 2003-2020

Yiyi Zhang; Jaejin An; Kristi Reynolds; Monika M Safford; Paul Muntner; Andrew E Moran

doi:10.1001/jamacardio.2022.2641

Trends of Elevated Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, Awareness, and Screening Among Young Adults in the US, 2003-2020

JAMA Cardiol. 2022 Oct 1;7(10):1079-1080. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2022.2641.

Authors

Yiyi Zhang¹, Jaejin An^{2

3}, Kristi Reynolds^{2

3}, Monika M Safford⁴, Paul Muntner⁵, Andrew E Moran¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York.
² Department of Research & Evaluation, Kaiser Permanente Southern California, Pasadena.
³ Department of Health Systems Science, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, Pasadena, California.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham.

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Plain language summary

This survey study characterizes the distribution and trend of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and the prevalence of screening and awareness of high cholesterol among US young adults.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Cholesterol*
Cholesterol, LDL
Humans
Hypercholesterolemia* / diagnosis
Young Adult

Substances

Cholesterol, LDL
Cholesterol

Grants and funding

R01 HL155081/HL/NHLBI NIH HHS/United States