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Relationship Of Lifestyle Medical Advice And Non-Hdl Cholesterol Control Of A Nationally Representative Us Sample With Hypercholesterolemia By Race/Ethnicity, Joan A. Vaccaro, Fatma G. Huffman
Relationship Of Lifestyle Medical Advice And Non-Hdl Cholesterol Control Of A Nationally Representative Us Sample With Hypercholesterolemia By Race/Ethnicity, Joan A. Vaccaro, Fatma G. Huffman
Joan A. Vaccaro
Objective. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the associations of lifestyle medical advice and non-HDL cholesterol control of a nationally representative US sample of adults with hypercholesterolemia by race/ethnicity. Methods. Data were collected by appending sociodemographic, anthropometric, and laboratory data from two cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Survey (2007-2008 and 2009-2010). This study acquired data from male and female adults aged ≥ 20 years (N = 11,577), classified as either Mexican American (MA), (), other Hispanic (OH) (), Black non-Hispanic (BNH) (), or White non-Hispanic (WNH) (). Results. Minorities were more likely to report having …