Dyslipidemia among 12 – 17 years children in western region of China: a cross-sectional analysis, 2016 – 2017

  Objective  To examine the prevalence of dyslipidemia among 12 to 17 years old children in western region of China from 2016 to 2017.

  Methods  The data on demographics, physical examination and blood lipid measurement for 11 474 children aged 12 – 17 years were extracted from ′ Nutrition and Health Surveillance for Children and Nursing Mothers′ conducted in 11 provinces and municipalities (not including Tibet Autonomous Region) across western region of China from 2016 through 2017. The prevalence of dyslipidemia among the children was statistically analyzed.

  Results  For all the children surveyed, the overall detection rate of dyslipidemia was 21.12%, with the detection rates of 1.27% for hypercholesterolemia, 5.65% for hypertriglyceridemia, 1.39% for elevated low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, 16.21% for low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and 1.28% for elevated non-high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, respectively; the overall detection rate of dyslipidemia was 50.86% among obese children. Significant disparities in detection rate of dyslipidemia were observed among the children with different demographic and physique characteristics (P < 0.05).

  Conclusion  Dyslipidemia was detected among more than one-fifth of the 12 to 17 years old children in western China; the dyslipidemia detection rate was different among the children with various characteristics and the detection rate was much more higher among the obese children.