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Public Health Weekly Report 2025; 18(36): 1371-1372
Published online September 11, 2025
https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2025.18.36.3
© The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
Trends in the Prevalence of Hypercholesterolemia, 2014–2023
Seungyeon Wi 
Division of Health and Nutrition Survey and Analysis, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
This is an Open Access aritcle distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Prevalence of hypercholesterolemia among Korean adults aged ≥19 years increased from 11.6% in 2014 to 20.9% in 2023 (difference of 9.3%p) (Figure 1). In 2023, the prevalence of hypercholesterolemia exhibited an increasing trend with age and was highest in both men and women in their 60s (Figure 2).
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Figure 1. Trends in the prevalence of hypercholesterolemia, 2014–2023
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Figure 2. Prevalence of hypercholesterolemia by age group, 2023
*Prevalence of hypercholesterolemia: Proportion of people who have total cholesterol of ≥240 mg/dl or taking cholesterol-lowering agents.
※Age-standardized prevalence was calculated using the 2005 population projections for Korea.
Source: Korea Health Statistics 2023, Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, https://knhanes.kdca.go.kr/
Reported by: Soyeong Yeon, Division of Health and Nutrition Survey and Analysis, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
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Public Health Weekly Report 2025; 18(36): 1371-1372
Published online September 11, 2025 https://doi.org/10.56786/PHWR.2025.18.36.3
Copyright © The Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency.
Trends in the Prevalence of Hypercholesterolemia, 2014–2023
Seungyeon Wi
Division of Health and Nutrition Survey and Analysis, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
This is an Open Access aritcle distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Prevalence of hypercholesterolemia among Korean adults aged ≥19 years increased from 11.6% in 2014 to 20.9% in 2023 (difference of 9.3%p) (Figure 1). In 2023, the prevalence of hypercholesterolemia exhibited an increasing trend with age and was highest in both men and women in their 60s (Figure 2).
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Figure 1. Trends in the prevalence of hypercholesterolemia, 2014–2023
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Figure 2. Prevalence of hypercholesterolemia by age group, 2023
*Prevalence of hypercholesterolemia: Proportion of people who have total cholesterol of ≥240 mg/dl or taking cholesterol-lowering agents.
※Age-standardized prevalence was calculated using the 2005 population projections for Korea.
Source: Korea Health Statistics 2023, Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, https://knhanes.kdca.go.kr/
Reported by: Soyeong Yeon, Division of Health and Nutrition Survey and Analysis, Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency
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