. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Feb 8.

Published in final edited form as: Br J Nutr. 2009 May 19;102(8):1220–1227. doi: 10.1017/S0007114509382161

Table 4.

HDL-cholesterol and TAG concentrations across categories of dietary carbohydrate intake in 4510 men and women from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis^*^†

(Mean values with their standard errors)

	Dietary carbohydrate (% energy)
	≤40·0		40·1–45·0		45·1–50·0		50·1–55·0		55·1–60·0		≥60·1
	Mean	se	Mean	se	Mean	se	Mean	se	Mean	se	Mean	se	P_trend
All participants (n)	442		781		1136		1016		630		505
HDL-cholesterol (mg/l)	542	6	549	5	519	4	513	4	516	5	510	6	<0·001
TAG (mg/l)	1182	29	1182	21	1215	18	1218	19	1252	24	1265	27	0·04
Non-Hispanic whites (n)	222		328		464		418		261		175
HDL-cholesterol (mg/l)	551	9	556	7	531	6	525	7	535	8	505	10	<0·001
TAG (mg/l)	1227	43	1180	34	1238	28	1197	30	1290	38	1294	47	0·09
African-Americans (n)	103		181		250		221		173		183
HDL-cholesterol (mg/l)	563	14	543	11	541	9	523	9	531	11	546	11	0·31
TAG (mg/l)	945	46	963	35	959	29	1007	31	934	35	954	35	0·94
Hispanics (n)	61		156		248		244		137		106
HDL-cholesterol (mg/l)	498	15	477	9	478	7	483	7	479	10	466	11	0·31
TAG (mg/l)	1463	85	1362	54	1438	42	1390	42	1461	57	1522	65	0·23
Chinese-Americans (n)	56		116		174		133		59		41
HDL-cholesterol (mg/l)	535	16	505	11	509	9	491	10	479	15	502	18	0·04
TAG (mg/l)	1150	87	1290	58	1241	47	1425	54	1509	81	1379	100	0·002

Adjusted for model 2 covariates: study centre, age, sex, race/ethnicity, total energy intake, education level, smoking status, smoking pack years, physical activity, alcoholic drinks per week and BMI.

^†

To convert HDL-cholesterol from mg/l to mmol/l, multiply by 0·00259; to convert TAG from mg/l to mmol/l, multiply by 0·00113.