Table 3.

Correlates of fasting triglyceride-rich lipoprotein particles. Spearman correlations were used to determine correlation coefficients (r) with Bonferroni corrections to account for 4 comparisons between TRLP subfractions and each variable.

	Fasting TRLP Correlation coefficient (r)
	Large		Medium		Small		Very Small
	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value
All women
Insulin sensitivity index (n=107)	−0.37	0.0007	−0.19	0.472	0.01	1.000	−0.201	0.379
Visceral fat (n=96)	0.56	0.0001	0.44	0.0001	0.16	1.000	0.42	0.0002
Liver fat (n=94)	0.50	0.0001	0.27	0.085	0.12	1.000	0.24	0.213
SCD-1₁₆ index (n=122)	0.33	0.002	0.40	0.0001	0.12	1.000	0.35	0.001
SCD-1₁₈ index (n=122)	0.23	0.117	0.34	0.002	0.05	1.000	0.31	0.005
Black women
Insulin sensitivity index (n=65)	−0.47	0.001	−0.34	0.0495	−0.13	1.000	−0.38	0.016
Visceral fat (n=57)	0.57	0.0001	0.48	0.001	0.09	1.000	0.57	0.0001
Liver fat (n=54)	0.41	0.024	0.23	0.961	−0.03	1.000	0.39	0.039
SCD-1₁₆ index (n=73)	0.19	1.000	0.32	0.052	−0.02	1.000	0.30	0.088
SCD-1₁₈ index (n=73)	0.17	1.000	0.34	0.030	−0.13	1.000	0.31	0.069
White women
Insulin sensitivity index (n=42)	−0.46	0.02	−0.20	1.000	−0.03	1.000	0.02	1.000
Visceral fat (n=39)	0.58	0.001	0.23	1.000	0.08	1.000	0.19	1.000
Liver fat (n=40)	0.60	0.0004	0.24	1.000	0.17	1.000	0.01	1.000
SCD-1₁₆ index (n=49)	0.41	0.033	0.32	0.252	0.14	1.000	0.34	0.157
SCD-1₁₈ index (n=49)	0.17	1.000	0.21	1.000	0.07	1.000	0.19	1.000