Table 4.

Pearson correlation coefficients and significance¹ among measure of obesity and plasma lipoprotein concentrations (n = 121)

	WC	TC	HDL-C	VLDL-C	IDL-C	LDL-C	TAG	Lp(a)-C
BMIz	0.801***	-0.019	-0.348***	0.212*	0.134	0.090	0.357***	-0.394***
WC		-0.107	-0.476***	0.187*	0.104	0.050	0.332***	-0.337***
TC			0.384***	0.310***	0.562***	0.934***	0.228*	0.219*
HDL-C				-0.224*	-0.117	0.051	-0.285**	0.462***
VLDL-C					0.803***	0.306***	0.869***	-0.254**
IDL-C						0.574***	0.699***	-0.155
LDL-C							0.258**	0.097
TAG								-0.283**

¹Significance: * for p < 0.05, ** for p < 0.01, *** for p < 0.001

Abbreviations: Body mass index: BMI, Body mass index z-score: BMIz, Waist circumference: WC, Total cholesterol: TC, High density lipoprotein cholesterol: HDL-C, Very low density lipoprotein cholesterol: VLDL-C, Intermediate density lipoprotein cholesterol: IDL-C, Low density lipoprotein cholesterol: LDL-C, Triglycerides: TAG, Lp(a) cholesterol: Lp(a)-C