Healthy hearts: a cross-sectional study of clinical cardiovascular disease risk factors in Northern Colorado school children (1992–2013)

Table 1 Cardiovascular risk factors among male and female children participating in the healthy hearts club 1992–2013, values are expressed as mean (S.D.)

	Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.	P-value
	Males (N = 4851)		Females (N = 4843)	S.D.	P-value
Age (years)	10.33	0.58	10.28	0.63	<0.001
BMI (kg/m²)	17.97	3.36	17.90	3.22	NS
Total Cholesterol (mg/dL)	161.73	28.89	161.72	28.26	NS
HDL-C (mg/dL)	49.07	12.31	48.23	11.95	<0.001
Non-HDL-C (mg/dL)	112.66	29.35	113.48	28.25	NS
Systolic Blood Pressure (mmHg)	102.03	10.06	101.45	9.96	<0.05
Diastolic Blood Pressure (mmHg)	66.00	8.41	65.58	8.16	<0.05

S.D. standard deviation, BMI body mass index, HDL-C high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, NS not significant at p < 0.05

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