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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2008 Apr 18;200(2):350–358. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.12.041

Table 5.

Pearson’s coefficient between HOMA-IR index and nuclear magnetic resonance lipoprotein subfractions

r* P
VLDL (nmol/L)
Large 0.10 0.006
Intermediate −0.09 0.02
Small −0.l7 <0.0001
VLDL size (nm) 0.20 <0.0001
LDL (nmol/L)
Large −0.05 0.07
Intermediate 0.12 <0.0001
Small 0.10 0.001
LDL size (nm) −0.05 0.09
HDL (µmol/L)
Large −0.005 0.89
Intermediate 0.10 0.006
Small −0.04 0.25
HDL size (nm) −0.04 0.34
*

Partial Pearson’s coefficients were calculated adjusting for age, BMI, systolic blood pressure, smoking habits, plasma triglycerides (VLDL subfractions), LDL-cholesterol (LDL subfractions), and HDL-cholesterol (HDL subfractions).