Table 4.

Ion transport and plasma lipids in French-Canadian and African-American men and women with essential hypertension: correlation analysis

	NKCC	Passive permeability for K+	NKCC	Passive permeability for K+
	French-Canadian men		African-American men
Triglycerides	r = 0.245	r = 0.150	r = −0.235	r = 0.267
	P = 0.01	P = 0.12	P = 0.27	P = 0.21
Cholesterol	r = 0.205	r = 0.099	r = −0.120	r = 0.14
	P = 0.03	P = 0.31	P = 0.22	P = 0.51
LDL	r = 0.06	r = 0.051	r = −0.103	r = 0.201
	P = 0.56	P = 0.61	P = 0.63	P = 0.35
HDL	r = 0.197	r = −0.062	r = 0.051	r = −0.273
	P = 0.04	P = 0.52	P = 0.81	P = 0.20
	French-Canadian women		African-American women
Triglycerides	r = 0.139	r = 0.066	r = 0.093	r = 0.490
	P = 0.17	P = 0.51	P = 0.56	P = 0.00099
Cholesterol	r = 0.101	r = 0.08	r = −0.194	r = 0.175
	P = 0.31	P = 0.43	P = 0.22	P = 0.27
LDL	r = 0.06	r = 0.049	r = −0.152	r = 0.100
	P = 0.56	P = 0.64	P = 0.34	P = 0.53
HDL	r = 0.026	r = 0.039	r = 0.326	r = − 0.068
	P = 0.79	P = 0.70	P = 0.03	P = 0.67

Correlations with P < 0.05 appear in boldface.

HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; NKCC, Na⁺,K⁺,2Cl⁻ co-transport.