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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2009 Mar;41(3):497–504. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31818c6c0c

Table 5.

NMR lipid characteristics associated with insulin resistance

Insulin Resistance (without diabetes)* Change in PCOS study
Particle Size
 VLDL -
 LDL -
 HDL
Particle Concentration
 VLDL Total - -
Large
Intermediate - -
Small - -
 IDL - -
 LDL Total -
Large -
Small -
 HDL Total - -
Large
Intermediate - **
Small -
*

Garvey 2003. ↑= increase, ↓= decrease, - = no change

**

Intermediate and Small combined