[Serum lipids in persons over 90 years of age].

UNLABELLED

Because of different views on the significance of the serum lipids as a risk factor of atherosclerosis in the elderly we evaluated the levels of total cholesterol (CH), HDL-cholesterol (HDL-CH) and triglyceride (TG) in the group of 56 very old (over the 90), who were in a good health condition. Desirable values of lipids were found respectively: CH in 55.4% of subjects, HDL-CH in 85.7% and TG in 89.3%. In the elderly with hypercholesterolemia (CH > 250 mg/dl) we simultaneously found high level of HDL-CH (x = 69.3 mg/dl).

CONCLUSIONS

The serum lipids levels in the elderly over 90 were generally within the limit of desirable values. On the other hand subjects who had higher level of cholesterol had also high level of HDL-CH (69.3 mg/dl). Considering our results we came to the conclusion that high level of HDL-CH is one of the favoring factors to reach an advanced age.