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Table II.

Age-adjusted Spearman correlation coefficients (r) between plasma Lp-PLA₂ activity and selected cardiovascular risk factors among 800 controls from the Nurses’ Health Study in 1990

Characteristic	r
Age, years	0.10	P-value
Cholesterol (mg/dl)		<0.001
Total	0.30	<0.001
LDL	0.48	<0.001
HDL	−0.41	<0.001
Triglycerides (mg/dl)^*	0.15	<0.001
Apolipoprotein B (mg/dl)	0.41	<0.001
CRP (mg/dl)	−0.09	<0.001
HbA1c (%)	0.02	0.01
BMI (kg/m²)	0.09	0.49
ICAM^†	0.16	0.01

Abbreviations: r, Correlation Coefficient

N = 539 for fasting triglycerides

^†

N = 422