Lipids in Health and Disease

Table 1 Baseline characteristics

From: Cardiovascular and cancer events in hyper-high-density lipoprotein cholesterolemic patients: a post hoc analysis of the MEGA study

	HDL-C (mg/dL)
	≤ 60	> 60 to ≤ 90	> 90
N	4896	2697	239
Age (years)	58.1	58.7	58.2
Male (%)	37.8	21.4^a	19.7^a
Body mass index (kg/m²)	24.4	23.0^a	21.4^a
Hypertension (%)	44.8	37.3^a	33.5^a
Diabetes mellitus (%)	23.2	17.0^a	15.5^a
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	242.3	243.1	242.5
LDL-C (mg/dL)	161.3	150.9^a	126.4^a
HDL-C (mg/dL)	48.4	70.3^a	97.0^a
Triglycerides (mg/dL)	172.2	110.2^a	80.5^a
Non–HDL-C (mg/dL)	193.9	172.8^a	143.5^a
Lipoprotein(a) (mg/dL)	23.9	26.1^a	25.7^a
Blood pressure (mmHg)
Systolic	132.9	131.1^a	130.0^a
Diastolic	79.1	77.7^a	77.8^a
Fasting blood glucose (mg/dL)	110	105^a	96^a
Former or current smokers (%)	24.5	14.2^a	13.4^a

HDL-C high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
^aP < 0.01 versus ≤ 60 mg/dL group.

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