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Cholesterol and triglyceride distributions in an adult employee population: The Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company health survey

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Plasma cholesterol and triglyceride are presented for 4503 adult employees of the Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company. Cross-sectional age and sex specific means and percentiles are shown. Females are classified by use or nonuse of exogenous sex hormones. Comparisons are examined among these groups, between blacks and whites, and among education and occupation categories. In these cross-sectional data, cholesterol and triglyceride generally increase with age and exhibit distinct differences by sex and by hormone use.

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  1. The Northwest Lipid Research Clinic, the Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Washington, USA

    J. Joanne Hoover, Carolyn E. Walden, Robert O. Bergelin, Patricia W. Wahl, John J. Albers (Established Investigator of the American Heart Association) & William R. Hazzard (Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

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    J. Joanne Hoover, Carolyn E. Walden, Robert O. Bergelin, Patricia W. Wahl, John J. Albers (Established Investigator of the American Heart Association) & William R. Hazzard (Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

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Hoover, J.J., Walden, C.E., Bergelin, R.O. et al. Cholesterol and triglyceride distributions in an adult employee population: The Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company health survey. Lipids 15, 895–903 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02534411

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