Lipid profile and dyslipidemia among school-age children in urban Ghana

BMC Public Health

Table 4 prevalence of dyslipidemia among school-going urban Ghanaian children aged 9–15 years, classified by weight status

Type of dyslipidemia^{a, b}	Normal-weight (n = 409)		Overweight/obese (n = 393)		p-value
Type of dyslipidemia^{a, b}	N	%	n	%	p-value
High total cholesterol
Boys	17	11.2	20	15.6	0.067
Girls	24	9.3	36	13.4	0.067
High LDL cholesterol
Boys	12	7.9	16	12.5	0.042
Girls	17	6.7	28	10.7	0.042
Low HDL cholesterol
Boys	38	25.0	46	35.9	< 0.001
Girls	55	21.4	89	33.6	< 0.001
High TC/HDL cholesterol ratio
Boys	4	2.6	14	10.9	0.002
Girls	12	4.7	23	8.7	0.002
High triglycerides
Boys	7	4.6	10	7.8	0.030
Girls	5	1.9	12	5.3	0.030

^aBased on US National Cholesterol Education Program 2001 Guidelines: Total cholesterol > 200 mg/dl, Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol > 130 mg/dl, High-density lipoprotein cholesterol ≤40 mg/dl, triglycerides > 150 mg/dl
^bTC/HDL-C ratio cut-off value for borderline to high risk, Kocaoglu et al. [13]: Total cholesterol/HDL-C ratio ≥ 4.5

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