Table 3.

Significance of active chronic HCV infection in the distribution of TG in the three VLDL sub-fractions analyzed by multiple regression models.

	Large VLDL-TG			Medium VLDL-TG			Small VLDL-TG
	B	SE	p Value	B	SE	p Value	B	SE	p Value
Constant	−28.2	33.2	0.4	12.1	11.7	0.3	18.5	5.6	0.001
HCV infection (Active HCV vs. SVR)	−10.6	5.1	0.04	−3.2	1.8	0.08	−0.04	0.9	0.97
Age	−0.06	0.2	0.7	0.003	0.06	0.96	0.04	0.03	0.1
Female gender	−10.2	4.3	0.02	−2.9	1.5	0.06	0.3	0.7	0.7
BMI	0.7	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.1	0.1	0.3
ALT	−0.04	0.07	0.6	−0.002	0.03	0.93	0.02	0.01	0.1
γ-GTP	0.1	0.06	0.03	0.05	0.02	0.02	0.02	0.01	0.049
Albumin	14.3	5.7	0.01	−0.3	2.00	0.9	−3.4	0.9	<0.001
HbA1c	−0.4	3.7	0.9	0.8	1.3	0.5	−0.3	0.6	0.6
Platelet	−0.2	0.2	0.4	−0.09	0.06	0.2	−0.02	0.03	0.5