Table 3. Associations of the sdLDL-C concentration and sdLDL-C/LDL-C ratio with metabolic variables in each gender determined by multiple linear regression analysis.
| Parameter | Men (n = 406) | Women (n=401) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| sdLDL-C (mmol/L) | sdLDL-C/LDL-C (%) | sdLDL-C (mmol/L) | sdLDL-C/LDL-C (%) | |||||
| β ± SE | P value | β ± SE | P value | β ± SE | P value | β ± SE | P value | |
| Age (yr) | 0.0006±0.0016 | 0.7126 | 0.0363±0.0456 | 0.4259 | 0.0042±0.0012 | 0.0007* | 0.1638±0.0379 | <0.0001* |
| WC (cm) | 0.0078±0.0022 | 0.0005* | 0.2501±0.0644 | 0.0001* | 0.0004±0.0018 | 0.8129 | 0.0269±0.0535 | 0.6150 |
| SBP (mm Hg) | -0.0029±0.0017 | 0.0873 | -0.1066±0.0490 | 0.0303* | -0.0001±0.0012 | 0.9223 | -0.0007±0.0363 | 0.9836 |
| DBP (mm Hg) | 0.0036±0.0020 | 0.0713 | 0.0969±0.0588 | 0.1000 | 0.0013±0.0016 | 0.4366 | 0.0502±0.0497 | 0.3131 |
| Fasting glucose (mmol/L) | 0.0198±0.0099 | 0.0467* | 0.4983±0.2903 | 0.0868 | 0.0215±0.0068 | 0.0017* | 0.4732±0.2069 | 0.0227* |
| TG (mmol/L) | 0.1776±0.0112 | <0.0001* | 7.4390±0.3270 | <0.0001* | 0.2420±0.0143 | <0.0001* | 7.3739±0.4339 | <0.0001* |
| HDL-C (mmol/L) | 0.0430±0.0617 | 0.4864 | 3.3684±1.8020 | 0.0623 | 0.0441±0.0404 | 0.2767 | -0.0022±1.2312 | 0.9986 |
| LDL-C (mmol/L) | 0.3911±0.0204 | <0.0001* | 0.3981±0.5957 | 0.5043 | 0.3005±0.0137 | <0.0001* | -0.1538±0.4164 | 0.7122 |
The components of metabolic syndrome (WC, TG, HDL-C, SBP, DBP, fasting glucose), age, and LDL-C were included in the multiple linear regression analysis with an "enter" procedure, and P values <0.05 are indicated by *.
Abbreviations: See Table 1.