Table 4. Associations between selected markers of atherosclerosis and the concentrations of testosterone (T) or dihydrotestosterone (DHT) in blood serum or plasma.

Associated variables	Coefficient of association (RS)	Value of a posteriori probablility (P1α)
testosterone total cholesterol	-0.264 (-0.056)	0.0005 (0.244)
	m -0.073	0.182
	f 0.115	0.077
triglycerides	-0.038 (-0.023)	0.316 (0.388)
	m -0.031	0.350
	f 0.054	0.251
HDL cholesterol	-0.322 (-0.035)	<<0.0001 (0.331)
	m -0.073	0.182
	f 0.018	0.414
LDL cholesterol	-0.177 (-0.092)	0.014 (0.127)
	m -0.040	0.313
	f 0.165	0.020
fasting glycaemia	0.223 (0.189)	0.003 (0.009)
	m 0.241	0.001
	f 0.142	0.039
uric acid	0.411 (0.220)	<<0.0001 (0.003)
	m 0.141	0.040
	f 0.307	<<0.0001
homocysteine	0.234 (0.040)	0.002 (0.311)
	m 0.224	0.003
	f -0.127	0.057
dihydrotestosterone total cholesterol	-0.252 (-0.059)	0.001 (0.233)
	m -0.037	0.323
	f 0.096	0.118
triglycerides	-0.040 (-0.017)	0.311 (0.417)
	m -0.001	0.496
	f 0.042	0.304
HDL cholesterol	-0.304 (-0.016)	0.0001 (0.422)
	m -0.050	0.267
	f 0.025	0.378
LDL cholesterol	-0.173 (-0.083)	0.016 (0.152)
	m -0.015	0.425
	f 0.122	0.066
fasting glycaemia	0.225 (0.185)	0.002 (0.011)
	m 0.224	0.003
	f 0.158	0.025
uric acid	0.403 (0.206)	<<0.0001 (0.005)
	m 0.127	0.058
	f 0.333	<<0.0001
homocysteine	0.196 (0.024)	0.007 (0.383)
	m 0.192	0.008
	f -0.210	0.004

Associations, estimated in the group composed of 73 men and 82 women, are presented as the LOO-boosted non-adjusted or sex-adjusted Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients; the values adjusted for sex, given in parentheses, were calculated with the partial Spearman’s correlation analysis. Spearman correlation coefficients, calculated separately for men (^m) and women (^f), were estimated by bootstrap resampling with replacement adjusted for the sample size of the overall group (n=155) (10000 iterations). LOO, the leave-one-out (‘jackknife’ or ‘d-jackknife’) algorithm.