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Table 1 Characteristics of the included and excluded population

From: Decreased plasma lipid levels in a statin-free Danish primary health care cohort between 2001 and 2018

 

Included

Excluded

P-value

n (individual patients)

634,119a

185,155

 

Sex (women/men), n (%)

333,659 (52.6) / 300,460 (47.4)

97,679 (52.8) / 87,476 (47.2)

0.3

Age (years), mean (SD)

49.0 (17.4)

48.9 (17.3)

0.5

Mean number of TC measurements

2.4 (2.1)

5.1 (6.4)

 

TC, mean (SD)

5.4 (1.1)

5.0 (1.2)

< 0.0001

LDL-C, mean (SD)

3.3 (0.9)

2.9 (1.0)

< 0.0001

HDL-C, mean (SD)

1.5 (0,4)

1.5 (0.5)

< 0.0001

TG, mean (SD)

1.5 (1.1)

1.7 (1.4)

< 0.0001

  1. Data are expressed as n (%) or mean (mmol/L) ± SD. TC total cholesterol, LDL-C low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, HDL-C high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, TG Triglyceride
  2. aNumber of patients with at least one included TC blood test result between 2001 and 2018