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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2016 Aug 1;252:136–146. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2016.07.930

Table 1.

Mean blood cholesterol concentration in wild type mice fed a normal chow diet and ApoE−/− mice fed a western diet. Numbers in parenthesis represent the percent of total cholesterol. p<0.0002 vs. wild type, for all types of cholesterol. n=4 for wild type; n=6 for ApoE−/−

Total cholesterol

(mg/dL)		 HDL

(mg/dL)		 LDL

(mg/dL)		 VLDL/Tri/CH

(mg/dL)
Wild type 65.1 ± 1.8 31.5 ± 4.6 25.1 ± 2.5 8.4 ± 7.8
Normal diet (48%) (39%) (13%)
ApoE −/− 811.6 ± 53.6 6.5 ± 0.7 412.6 ± 14.6 392.6 ± 40.9
Western diet (1%) (51%) (48%)