Table 3.

Spearman Rank Correlations¹ between measures of serum lipoproteins and pulse wave velocity in the study population

	cfPWV		baPWV		faPWV
	Spearman ρ	p-value	Spearman ρ	p-value	Spearman ρ	p-value
Total VLDL-P	0.1133	0.0034	0.2218	<0.0001	0.1840	<0.0001
Large VLDL-P	0.2351	<0.0001	0.3326	<0.0001	0.2898	<0.0001
Medium VLDL-P	0.1517	<0.0001	0.2555	<0.0001	0.2128	<0.0001
Small VLDL-P	−0.0318	0.4120	0.0127	0.7425	0.0019	0.9602
Triglycerides	0.2176	<0.0001	0.2763	<0.0001	0.2325	<0.0001
VLDL Size	0.2038	<0.0001	0.2674	<0.0001	0.2428	<0.0001
Intermediate DL-P	0.0928	0.0164	0.0978	0.0112	0.0991	0.0105
Total LDL-P	0.1827	<0.0001	0.1651	<0.0001	0.1102	0.0044
Large LDL-P	−0.0569	0.1415	−0.1836	<0.0001	−0.1444	0.0002
Small LDL-P	0.1961	<0.0001	0.2981	<0.0001	0.1963	<0.0001
LDL-C	0.0576	0.1370	0.0314	0.4170	−0.0016	0.9665
LDL Size	−0.1271	0.0010	−0.2794	<0.001	−0.1951	<0.0001
Total HDL-P	0.0701	0.0702	0.2552	<0.0001	0.2186	<0.0001
Large HDL-P	−0.1302	0.0007	−0.0746	0.0536	−0.0187	0.6305
Medium HDL-P	0.0407	0.2938	0.1556	<0.0001	0.0920	0.0176
Small HDL-P	0.1387	0.0003	0.2416	<0.0001	0.2162	<0.0001
HDL-C	−0.0614	0.1125	0.0373	0.3345	0.0387	0.3178
HDL Size	−0.1089	0.0048	−0.0513	0.1843	0.0096	0.8038

¹Partial correlation after adjusting for age and race

Spearman ρ = Spearman rank correlation coefficient. Cut-off p-value of p<0.01 was used for determining significance.

Unit for VLDL-P and LDL-P was nmol/L, unit for HDL-P was μmol/L. Unit for pulse wave velocity was cm/s

cfPWV = carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity, baPWV = brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity, faPWV = femoral-ankle pulse wave velocity

VLDL-P = very low-density lipoprotein particle number, VLDL-C = very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-P = low-density lipoprotein particle number, LDL-C = low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, HDL-P = high-density lipoprotein particle number, HDL-C = high-density lipoprotein cholesterol