Figure 3.

Longitudinal associations of the log α-tocopherol/total cholesterol ratio with age, intake of α-tocopherol equivalents, absolute fat mass and vitamin C plasma concentrations separated by sex. This figure illustrates the changes in the log α-tocopherol/total cholesterol ratio with increasing age (A), intake of α-tocopherol equivalents (B), fat mass (C) and vitamin C plasma concentrations (D) after controlling for the cofactors included in the linear mixed-effects model 3 (n = 399). The thick lines represent the estimated means and the respective colored areas reflect the 95% confidence intervals. The associations are illustrated in magenta color for females (n = 278) and blue color for males (n = 121). Abbreviation: TOC/chol ratio = α-tocopherol/total cholesterol ratio.