Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disability in older people.
There is little information about the distributions of risk factors in older populations. Distributions of lipids by age ad sex and bivariate and multivariate relations among lipids and other variables are determined in cross-sectional analyses. LDL-C concentration was associated wit far fewer variables than the other lipids but was negatively associated with age in men and women and positively correlated with obesity and central fat patterning and negatively correlated with renal function and estrogen use in women.