Brazil: share of adults with high cholesterol 2013-2016, by gender
This statistic shows the results of a survey about consumers' lifestyles in Brazil carried out from 2013 to 2016. In 2016, nearly 26 percent of female respondents aged 18 and older claimed to have been diagnosed with dyslipidemia, a disease commonly known for the presence of a high level of cholesterol in the blood. On average, 22.6 percent of respondents said they suffered from this disease in 2016, up from 20 percent in 2014.