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During the SICU stay a mean cholesterol value was computed.
The mean cholesterol value was calculated per patient, based on all the tests performed during a specific year in the period 1994 2003.
There were significant differences in the mean cholesterol value (224.5 ± 57.7 mg/dl vs 188.1 ± 41.2 mg/dl p < 0.0001), but not in the mean values of triglycerides between patients and controls (126 ± 45 mg/dl vs. 140.1 ± 73.75 mg/dl).
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Herd A had significantly lower mean cholesterol values than the other herds 1 3 weeks pp. Approximately one third of the cows in this herd had values below 2.0 mmol/L.
They were also younger, more likely to drink excessive alcohol and smoke, had lower prescription rates of other medications, were more likely to have other missing data, and had worse mean cholesterol values (Table 5).
A recently published US investigation by DeGuzman et al. [ 39] including 926 high risk patients with diabetes and concomitant atherosclerotic CVD found that although the vast majority of patients were prescribed recommended drug therapy and mean cholesterol and BP values were satisfactory, the percentage of patients actually treated to goals of current guidelines was moderate.
35 Where total or high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol information was not available, values were imputed using the observed mean cholesterol for patients of the same sex and age group (5-year age bands) with existing cholesterol readings.
In a study of critically ill trauma patients, mean cholesterol levels were significantly lower (119 ± 44 mg/dl) than expected values (201 ± 17 mg/dl).
15 In another study, mean total cholesterol values decreased in all estradiol plus drospirenone groups but not in the estradiol monotherapy group; also in this latter group triglyceride level increased.
The mean values of age, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, BMI, and total cholesterol and frequencies of hypertension were increased with increasing HbA1c levels, whereas the mean HDL cholesterol values and frequencies of smoking habits and alcohol intake decreased.
Mean cholesterol and WBC count values before the CPI and at the time of the CPI were computed: cholesterol 138 ± 39 mg/dl and 131 ± 37 mg/dl, respectively (P = 0.26); and WBC count 16.3 ± 6.1 × 10cells/μl and 16.6 ± 7.3 × 103 cells/μl, respectively (P = 0.78).
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