TY - JOUR
T1 - Divergent age-associated patterns of high density lipoprotein cholesterol and its percentage in jewish and moslem arab israeli children and adolescents
T2 - The petach tikva project
AU - Greenland, Philip
AU - Goldbourt, Uri
AU - Yaari, Shlomit
AU - Rudniki, Carlos
AU - Hart, Jacob
AU - Ferrara, Moshe
AU - Marom, Rachel
AU - Canetti, Menachem
AU - Cohen, Eytan
AU - Katz, Menachem
AU - Zahavi, Izhar
PY - 1993/3/1
Y1 - 1993/3/1
N2 - We studied three groups of Israeli Jewish schoolchildren in and surrounding Petach Tikva, Israel, cross-sectionally, at ages 9-10, 13-14, and 16-18 years, and compared lipid and lipoprotein levels and age-associated lipoprotein patterns in the same age groups of boys and girls in neighboring Israeli Moslem Arab schools during 1986-1987. Moslem children displayed striking differences in the levels of lipids and age-associated patterns of lipoproteins compared with Jewish schoolchildren. The mean total cholesterol levels were lower in the Moslem children, in both sexes, in every age grouping. High density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels were significantly higher at age 16-18 in the Moslem boys than in the Jewish boys. While the Jewish boys displayed a previously reported "typical" pattern of lower HDL-C levels postpuberty compared with prepuberty, the Moslem boys had markedly higher mean HDL-C levels at age 16-18 compared with those at age 9-10. The Moslem girls also had higher HDL-C levels at age 16-18 than those observed in the age 9-10 group. Concomitantly higher HDL-C levels (HDL-C/total cholesterol (%)) were seen in the Moslem boys and girls, at age 16-18 compared with age 9-10, but were not observed in the Jewish children. The identification of an ethnic group in whom HDL-C appears to increase at or near puberty could provide opportunities to elucidate factors that may increase HDL-C in individuals or in populations.
AB - We studied three groups of Israeli Jewish schoolchildren in and surrounding Petach Tikva, Israel, cross-sectionally, at ages 9-10, 13-14, and 16-18 years, and compared lipid and lipoprotein levels and age-associated lipoprotein patterns in the same age groups of boys and girls in neighboring Israeli Moslem Arab schools during 1986-1987. Moslem children displayed striking differences in the levels of lipids and age-associated patterns of lipoproteins compared with Jewish schoolchildren. The mean total cholesterol levels were lower in the Moslem children, in both sexes, in every age grouping. High density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) levels were significantly higher at age 16-18 in the Moslem boys than in the Jewish boys. While the Jewish boys displayed a previously reported "typical" pattern of lower HDL-C levels postpuberty compared with prepuberty, the Moslem boys had markedly higher mean HDL-C levels at age 16-18 compared with those at age 9-10. The Moslem girls also had higher HDL-C levels at age 16-18 than those observed in the age 9-10 group. Concomitantly higher HDL-C levels (HDL-C/total cholesterol (%)) were seen in the Moslem boys and girls, at age 16-18 compared with age 9-10, but were not observed in the Jewish children. The identification of an ethnic group in whom HDL-C appears to increase at or near puberty could provide opportunities to elucidate factors that may increase HDL-C in individuals or in populations.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Cholesterol
KW - Ethnic groups
KW - Lipids
KW - Lipoproteins
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U2 - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116708
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116708
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AN - SCOPUS:0027481412
SN - 0002-9262
VL - 137
SP - 549
EP - 558
JO - American Journal of Epidemiology
JF - American Journal of Epidemiology
IS - 5
ER -