Table 2.

Spearman’s correlation coefficients for risk factors in individuals with familial hypercholesterolemia

	Carotid intima media thickness		Serum sulfatide
	r	P value	r	P value
Age	0.436	<0.001	0.402	<0.001
Sex	−0.031	NS	−0.056	NS
BMI	0.632	<0.05	0.695	<0.05
Waist circumference	0.600	<0.05	0.725	<0.05
Waist-hip ratio	0.678	<0.05	0.726	<0.05
SBP	0.401	<0.05	0.505	<0.05
DBP	0.412	<0.05	0.591	<0.05
Fasting blood glucose	0.418	NS	0.414	NS
Total cholesterol	0.281	NS	0.216	NS
Triglyceride	0.512	<0.05	0.101	<0.05
HDL-C	−0.181	NS	−0.116	NS
LDL-C	0.284	NS	0.316	NS
Cholesterol-year score	0.526	<0.001	0.407	<0.001
Apolipoprotein B	0.384	<0.05	0.516	<0.05
Apolipoprotein A1	0.054	NS	0.026	NS
Serum sulfatide	0.600	<0.001	–	–

NS Not significant; BMI Body mass index; SBP Systolic blood pressure; DBP Diastolic blood pressure; HDL-C High density lipoprotein- cholesterol; LDL-C Low-density lipoprotein- cholesterol