[Prevalence of dyslipidemias in adult ambulatory laboratory tests from different health care providers].

Objective: To detect differences in the prevalence of dyslipidemia in adult ambulatory laboratory tests from three different health care providers, in Salvador-Brazil, 1995.

Methods: The study was carried out using a probabilistic sample of 24 out of 104 laboratories (approximately equal to 25%) which performed the same enzymatic method for lipid tests with the same quality control. Laboratory tests results were separated into three groups, according to health care provider: Sistema Unico de Saúde (SUS, governamental), Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO), and Private or Patients Health Insurance (PHI).