Table 3.

Spearman Correlations Between the Within-Woman Changes in Sex Hormones and the Within-Woman Changes in HDL Metrics

	E2a		FSHa
	Unadjusted	Adjustedb	Unadjusted	Adjustedb
Total HDL-PIMAa	0.25	0.17	−0.06	−0.09
S-HDL-PIMAa	−0.29*	−0.32*	0.01	0.06
M-HDL-PIMAa	0.24	0.25	0.04	−0.05
L-HDL-PIMAa	0.36*	0.30	0.05	0.01
Mean size, S-HDL-PIMAa	−0.10	−0.08	−0.04	−0.10
Mean size, M-HDL-PIMAa	−0.06	−0.05	−0.21	−0.31*
Mean size, L-HDL-PIMAa	0.18	0.22	−0.18	−0.29
ABCA1-specific CECa	0.17	0.22	−0.02	−0.03
Macrophage CECa	0.22	0.21	0.01	0.04

^*P < .05; **P ≤ .01; ***P < .001.

^aDifferences between log-transformed values before and after menopause.

^bAdjusted for time difference between the two assessments, BMI, race, and cycle day of blood draw at the baseline visit.