Table 3.

Spearman correlation coefficients between the antioxidant capacity of HDL and parameters of HDL composition (n=96)

	% of lag phase increment		% of Rf inhibition
	R	P	R	P
Esterified cholesterol (%)	0.198	0.053	−0,195	0.055
Free cholesterol (%)	0.239	0.019d	−0.118	0.248
Triglyceride (%)	0.152	0.140	0.154	0.133
Phospholipid (%)	−0.021	0.428	0.165	0.106
NEFA (mol/mol apoA-I)	0.146	0.157	0.301	0.003d
apoA-I (%)	−0,201	0.050d	−0.126	0.220
apoA-II (%)	−0.035	0.734	0.013	0.902
PON1 (plasma activity)	−0.058	0.577	0.108	0.297
PAF-AH (HDL activity)	0.097	0.349	−0.023	0.822
Neutral lipids/polar lipidsa	0.314	0.002d	−0.166	0.105
Core/surfaceb	0.366	<0.001d	−0.135	0.189
Lipid/proteinc	0.150	0.144	0.086	0.403

^aRatio triglycerides+esterified cholesterol/phospholipids+free cholesterol;

^bRatio triglycerides + esterified cholesterol/phospholipids + free cholesterol+apoA-I+apoA-II;

^cRatio triglycerides+cholesterol+phospholipids/apoA-I+apoA-II;

^dStatistically significant associations.