Table 3. Correlations between baseline sortilin levels and lipid parameters.

	All patients		Pitavastatin		Pravastatin
	r	p value	r	p value	r	p value
Baseline level
Total cholesterol	0.118	0.27	0.229	0.13	−0.004	0.98
LDL cholesterol	0.104	0.33	0.133	0.39	0.026	0.87
Triglycerides	−0.032	0.76	0.220	0.15	−0.267	0.07
HDL cholesterol	−0.023	0.83	−0.106	0.5	0.048	0.75
Hetero-dimer PCSK9	0.085	0.43	0.084	0.59	0.094	0.54
Percentage change
Total cholesterol	0.008	0.94	−0.035	0.82	−0.113	0.45
LDL cholesterol	0.039	0.71	0.124	0.42	−0.166	0.27
Triglycerides	0.119	0.26	−0.047	0.76	0.159	0.29
HDL cholesterol	0.052	0.63	−0.026	0.87	0.074	0.63
Hetero-dimer PCSK9	0.020	0.85	−0.286	0.06	0.110	0.47

LDL, low-density lipoprotein; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; PCSK9, proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9.