. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Lipids. 2009 Feb 6;44(5):459–464. doi: 10.1007/s11745-009-3285-7

Table 3.

Relationships between plasma lipid transfer enzyme concentrations and lipoprotein profile

	LCAT	LPL	CETP	HL

Total VLDL particle concentration	0.414^*	0.128	0.299^*	0.003
Large VLDL particles	0.315^*	0.114	0.143	0.162
Medium VLDL particles	0.457^*	−0.067	0.074	−0.099
Small VLDL particles	0.287^*	0.203	0.370^*	0.047
Average VLDL particle size	0.167	0.044	−0.001	0.237^*
VLDL-triglyceride concentration	0.445^*	0.137	0.183	0.109
Total LDL particle concentration	0.333^*	0.232^*	0.459^*	0.184
Large LDL particles	0.031	0.099	0.169	−0.124
Small LDL particles	0.327^*	0.198	0.401^*	0.235^*
Average LDL particle size	−0.157	−0.125	−0.198	−0.227^*
Total HDL particle concentration	0.595^*	−0.034	0.287^*	0.021
Large HDL particles	−0.114	−0.182	−0.070	−0.269^*
Medium HDL particles	0.245^*	0.232^*	0.105	−0.206
Small HDL particles	0.477^*	−0.045	0.249^*	0.338^*
Average HDL particle size	−0.389^*	−0.053	−0.193	−0.189
HDL-cholesterol concentration	0.062	−0.104	0.030	−0.185

Pearson’s simple correlation coefficients are shown;

p < 0.05.

LCAT, lecithin-cholesterol acyl transferase; LPL, lipoprotein lipase; CETP, cholesterol-ester transfer protein; HL, hepatic lipase; VLDL, very-low density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; HDL, high-density lipoprotein.