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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 27.
Published in final edited form as: Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 1995 Feb;15(2):169–178. doi: 10.1161/01.atv.15.2.169

Table 4.

Effect of the Menstrual Cycle on Cholesterol Responses at Each Level of Dietary Cholesterol

Cholesterol Slope
Difference
First Half Second Half
Total 0.064 ± 0.079 (P<.006) 0.073 ± 0.059 (P<.001) 0.008 ± 0.053 (P=NS)
LDL 0.048 ± 0.067 (P<.015) 0.055 ± 0.051 (P<.003) 0.007 ± 0.055 (P=NS)
HDL 0.017 ± 0.020 (P<.02) 0.015 ± 0.028 (P<.04) −0.002 ± 0.024 (P=NS)

Each woman’s level of dietary cholesterol from the first and second halves of her menstrual cycle during each diet were analyzed separately to generate dose responses to increases in dietary cholesterol. Slopes are in millimoles per liter per 100 mg dietary cholesterol per day. Values are mean ± SD. Difference is the mean ± SD of the individual differences between each woman’s slopes during the first and the second halves of her menstrual cycle.