Low HDL-C levels are commonly present in subjects with diabetes, metabolic syndrome, or obesity.

Indications for lipid-lowering interventions and low HDL-C were also studied.

There were also fewer black men with low HDL-C than in the other groups.

Conclusions: Low HDL-C level is a risk factor for CVD mortality in elderly Japanese-American men.

In this sense, lifestyle measures should be the first-line strategy to manage low HDL levels.

These data provide novel insight into the mechanisms linking low HDL with increased CV risk.

They were also less likely to have low HDL-c levels and elevated triglyceride levels compared with high-risk patients.

The National Lipid Association emphasizes that rigorous research into the biology and clinical significance of low HDL-C should continue.

Some people have a genetic tendency to low HDL, even when all their other cardiovascular risk factors are normal.

MDA-LDL concentrations in both high TG and low HDL groups did not differ significantly from those in the control.

Workers with higher activity levels were also less likely to have abdominal obesity, high blood pressure and low HDL.

Given the evolving epidemic of obesity, diabetes mellitus, and metabolic syndrome, the prevalence of low HDL will continue to rise.

The relation between isolated low HDL-cholesterol and the components of the metabolic syndrome is poorly known in type 2 diabetes.

Both high total cholesterol levels or low HDL levels can increase risk of heart disease or heart attacks, the CDC said.

Conclusions: Alcohol drinking was significantly and positively associated with high BP and high TG, while alcohol drinking inversely associated with low HDL-C.

Moreover, risk factors such as high blood triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol levels, and elevated blood pressure consistently showed improvement with carbohydrate restriction.