LDL Cholesterol Is Associated With Blood Pressure in Japanese Women
- From the Medical Checkup Center, Tachikawa Medical Center, Nagaoka, Japan.
- Corresponding author: Eiji Oda, ijie{at}venus.sannet.ne.jp.
HDL cholesterol is considered a component of insulin resistance syndrome or metabolic syndrome, but LDL cholesterol is not considered a component of metabolic syndrome (1–3). We have reviewed the literature and have found that there may be no report regarding the association between LDL cholesterol and blood pressure.
We studied cross-sectional relationships between LDL cholesterol and other metabolic risk factors using medical checkup data from 2,449 Japanese men (age 51.9 ± 9.6 years) and 1,448 Japanese women (age 51.5 ± 9.8 years) who visited …
