TABLE 3.

Spearman correlation coefficients of the serum ratios of squalene and noncholesterol sterols to cholesterol (100 × μmol/mmol of cholesterol) in the controls and subjects with GDM in the third trimester of pregnancy

	Squalene	Lanosterol	Δ8-Cholestenol	Lathosterol	Desmosterol	Sitosterol	Campesterol
Control (n = 27)
Lanosterol	0.562b	—	—	—	—	—	—
Δ8-Cholestenol	0.297	0.317	—	—	—	—	—
Lathosterol	0.078	0.076	0.753c	—	—	—	—
Desmosterol	0.190	0.011	0.488a	0.446a	—	—	—
Sitosterol	0.216	0.267	−0.133	−0.140	−0.358	—	—
Campesterol	0.162	0.203	−0.206	−0.230	−0.429a	0.950c	—
Cholestanol	0.121	0.226	−0.242	−0.407a	−0.536b	0.563b	0.592b
GDM (n = 21)
Lanosterol	0.621b	—	—	—	—	—	—
Δ8-Cholestenol	0.454a	0.622b	—	—	—	—	—
Lathosterol	0.370	0.370	0.788c	—	—	—	—
Desmosterol	0.009	−0.056	−0.090	0.094	—	—	—
Sitosterol	0.433	0.338	0.169	0.134	−0.290	—	—
Campesterol	0.484a	0.217	0.149	0.221	−0.345	0.899c	—
Cholestanol	0.146	0.088	0.074	−0.074	−0.500a	0.561b	0.474a

^aP < 0.05.

^bP < 0.01.

^cP < 0.001.