Table 5.

Postprandial lipids, lipoproteins, apoproteins and hsCRP at the end of test phases

	Low Lys:Arg	High Lys:Arg	P value
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	202 ± 24	207 ± 28	0.073
LDL cholesterol (mg/dL)#	128 ± 18	126 ± 20	0.904
VLDL cholesterol (mg/dL)*	22 ± 11	29 ± 16	0.001
HDL cholesterol (mg/dL)	52 ± 12	53 ± 12	0.594
Triglyceride (mg/dL)*	137 ± 52	178 ± 80	0.001
Total cholesterol:HDL cholesterol#	4.03 ± 0.89	4.09 ± 0.93	0.050
Lipoprotein (a) (mg/dL)#	33.8 ± 25.0	34.3 ± 26.3	0.057
Apoprotein AI (mg/dL)	147.0 ± 21.9	151.4 ± 21.9	0.018
Apoprotein B (mg/dL)#	98.5 ± 13.6	100.3 ± 15.7	0.136
hsCRP (mg/dL)	1.81 ± 2.30	2.34 ± 2.89	0.020

A paired t-test was carried out for each variable.

^*Transformed to log10 values before statistical analysis.

^#Transformed to rank data before statistical analysis.