Table 3.

Pairwise Spearman rank order correlation of traditional lipid variables with each other and with NMR-derived lipoprotein variables

	Spearman correlation coefficients (p-value)
	Triglycerides	LDL-C	HDL-C
Traditional Lipid Profile
Triglycerides	1.00	-	-
LDL-C	0.11 (<0.001)	1.00	-
HDL-C	−0.50 (<0.001)	0.03 (0.019)	1.00
NMR Particle Number
VLDL	0.82 (<0.001)	0.34 (<0.001)	−0.47 (<0.001)
LDL	0.47 (<0.001)	0.69 (<0.001)	−0.38 (<0.001)
HDL	−0.08 (<0.001)	−0.02 (0.083)	0.63 (<0.001)
NMR Particle Size
VLDL	0.26 (<0.001)	−0.30 (<0.001)	−0.08 (<0.001)
LDL	−0.62 (<0.001)	−0.04 (0.008)	0.74 (<0.001)
HDL	−0.56 (<0.001)	−0.05 (<0.001)	0.76 (<0.001)