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Basil M. Rifkind, MD, FRCP; Pesach Segal, MD

JAMA. 1983;250(14):1869-1872.

Abstract
Plasma cholesterol and triglyceride distributions have been established for 60,502 participants in a survey of ten separate, well-defined North American populations. Lipoprotein cholesterol levels were measured in a 7,055-person random sample of the white participants. From these data, new age- and sex-specific reference values have been selected for the diagnosis of hyperlipidemia and hypolipidemia. The use of these new reference values for population screening would result in the conditions of more young subjects being diagnosed as hypercholesterolemic and a very significant decrease in the proportion of the adult population being diagnosed as having hypertriglyceridemia.

(JAMA 1983;250:1869-1872)

Author Affiliations
From the Lipid Metabolism—Atherogenesis Branch, Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Md.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Lipid Metabolism—Atherogenesis Branch, Division of Heart and Vascular Disease, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20205 (Dr Rifkind).

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