TABLE 2.

Serum lipoprotein subclass data according to liver phenotype

	Normal Liver (n = 32)	Simple Steatosis (n = 19)	NASH (n = 25)	Pa	FDR
Total lipids in (mmol/l)
Chylomicrons and extremely large VLDL	0.025 ± 0.021	0.036 ± 0.031	0.048 ± 0.026	0.0007	0.0065
Very large VLDL	0.069 ± 0.050	0.090 ± 0.069	0.129 ± 0.061	0.0004	0.0065
Large VLDL	0.277 ± 0.153	0.330 ± 0.211	0.456 ± 0.185	0.0017	0.0074
Medium VLDL	0.566 ± 0.198	0.597 ± 0.266	0.783 ± 0.246	0.0022	0.0077
Small VLDL	0.629 ± 0.145	0.596 ± 0.159	0.778 ± 0.205	0.0013	0.0065
Very small VLDL	0.508 ± 0.124	0.462 ± 0.096	0.549 ± 0.172	0.1255	0.1515
Total IDL	1.033 ± 0.255	0.936 ± 0.237	1.151 ± 0.344	0.0651	0.0872
Large LDL	1.206 ± 0.301	1.095 ± 0.310	1.409 ± 0.416	0.0154	0.0250
Medium LDL	0.694 ± 0.181	0.638 ± 0.203	0.844 ± 0.258	0.0095	0.0179
Small LDL	0.457 ± 0.120	0.433 ± 0.156	0.574 ± 0.184	0.0097	0.0179
Very large HDL	0.266 ± 0.135	0.267 ± 0.160	0.301 ± 0.193	0.6399	0.6399
Large HDL	0.463 ± 0.264	0.390 ± 0.249	0.451 ± 0.300	0.3278	0.3585
Medium HDL	0.844 ± 0.175	0.821 ± 0.107	0.901 ± 0.188	0.2808	0.3170
Small HDL	1.110 ± 0.090	1.095 ± 0.168	1.167 ± 0.128	0.0781	0.0976
Total cholesterol in (mmol/l)
Large VLDL	0.062 ± 0.035	0.071 ± 0.046	0.100 ± 0.040	0.0011	0.0065
Medium VLDL	0.160 ± 0.053	0.159 ± 0.063	0.214 ± 0.066	0.0028	0.0082
Small VLDL	0.232 ± 0.060	0.207 ± 0.054	0.277 ± 0.082	0.0028	0.0082
Total IDL	0.633 ± 0.156	0.567 ± 0.148	0.703 ± 0.205	0.0440	0.0616
Large LDL	0.797 ± 0.213	0.712 ± 0.222	0.937 ± 0.293	0.0157	0.0250
Medium LDL	0.453 ± 0.131	0.406 ± 0.107	0.558 ± 0.188	0.0096	0.0179
Small LDL	0.283 ± 0.083	0.260 ± 0.103	0.357 ± 0.127	0.0141	0.0247
Very large HDL	0.151 ± 0.080	0.161 ± 0.095	0.175 ± 0.093	0.5106	0.5256
Large HDL	0.217 ± 0.118	0.183 ± 0.130	0.208 ± 0.162	0.2098	0.2448
Medium HDL	0.415 ± 0.094	0.401 ± 0.063	0.439 ± 0.098	0.3646	0.3867
Triglycerides in (mmol/l)
Chylomicrons and extremely large VLDL	0.019 ± 0.015	0.027 ± 0.022	0.035 ± 0.019	0.0009	0.0065
Very large VLDL	0.045 ± 0.032	0.060 ± 0.044	0.084 ± 0.040	0.0004	0.0065
Large VLDL	0.163 ± 0.089	0.198 ± 0.125	0.269 ± 0.111	0.0019	0.0074
Medium VLDL	0.292 ± 0.111	0.321 ± 0.156	0.415 ± 0.139	0.0035	0.0094
Small VLDL	0.253 ± 0.067	0.255 ± 0.087	0.329 ± 0.088	0.0012	0.0065
Very small VLDL	0.119 ± 0.028	0.112 ± 0.023	0.142 ± 0.040	0.0095	0.0179
Total IDL	0.120 ± 0.032	0.111 ± 0.020	0.138 ± 0.041	0.0313	0.0457
Very large HDL	0.010 ± 0.004	0.009 ± 0.004	0.013 ± 0.005	0.0079	0.0179
Small HDL	0.042 ± 0.010	0.042 ± 0.010	0.048 ± 0.011	0.0673	0.0872
Apolipoproteins (g/l)
Apolipoprotein A-I	1.367 ± 0.200	1.311 ± 0.186	1.476 ± 0.231	0.0179	0.0272
Apolipoprotein B	0.860 ± 0.179	0.821 ± 0.189	1.023 ± 0.246	0.0060	0.0150

^aKruskal-Wallis test. FDR with Benjamini-Hochberg method.