Table 4.

Lipoprotein Subclass Particle Concentration and Lipoprotein Size Using NMR Spectroscopy

	PCOS	Controls	P Value
n	124	67
Particle concentration
Total VLDL and chylomicrons, nm	51.44 ± 24.16	45.73 ± 17.56	.2
Large VLDL and chylomicrons, nm	4.04 ± 3.7	2.37 ± 1.73a	.001
Medium VLDL, nm	18.36 ± 12.64	15.27 ± 7.62	.39
Small VLDL, nm	29.55 ± 14.54	29.16 ± 14.19	.79
Total LDL, nm	1067.76 ± 391.75	919.57 ± 300.34b	.02
IDL, nm	201.01 ± 125.31	253.85 ± 181.39	.18
Large LDL, nm	200.94 ± 143.27	203.07 ± 147.08	.87
Small LDL, nm	652.91 ± 367.95	434.33 ± 280.17a	<.0001
Total HDL, μm	39.09 ± 9.14	35.64 ± 7.83a	.01
Large HDL, μm	6.77 ± 4.44	7.68 ± 3.77	.06
Medium HDL, μm	14.39 ± 7.62	12.77 ± 6.4	.27
Small HDL, μm	18.32 ± 5.96	16.21 ± 5.37b	.02
Particle size, nm
VLDL	49.58 ± 6.04	46.78 ± 5.28a	.006
LDL	21.03 ± 5.73	20.67 ± 0.65	.07
HDL	9.34 ± 0.49	9.55 ± 0.44a	.006

Data are presented as mean ± SD.

^aP < .01.

^bP < .05.