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 Resident population aged 15 and more who reported suffering from high blood lipids (No.)
Characteristic Description
Name Resident population aged 15 and more who reported suffering from high blood lipids (No.) by Sex, Age group and Regular consumption of medicines prescribed for high cholesterol or triglycerides (Yes/No); Quinquennial
Regularity Quinquennial
Source Statistics Portugal, National health survey 2019
First available period 2019
Last available period 2019
Dimensions
  • Data reference period
  • Place of residence (Portugal)
  • Sex
  • Age group
  • Regular consumption of medicines prescribed for high cholesterol or triglycerides (Yes/No)
Concepts
  • AGE GROUP:  The age interval in years to which a person belongs at the time of reference.
  • REFERENCE PERIOD:  Period to which the information refers and which may be a specific day or a time interval (month, fiscal year, calendar year, among others).
  • CHOLESTEROL:  -
  • SEX:  Biological and physiological characteristics that define men and women.
  • RESIDENT POPULATION:  Set of persons who, regardless of being present or absent in a given housing unit at the moment of observation, have lived in the place of their usual residence for a continuous period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, or have arrived to the place of their usual residence during the period of 12 months prior to the moment of observation, with the purpose of living there for a year, at least.
Measure unit (symbol) Number (No.)
Power of 10  0
Observations
Last update date 22/09/2021


information presented in 17/12/2025