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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 4.
Published in final edited form as: Atherosclerosis. 2023 Oct;383:117316. doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2023.117316

Figure 1. Triglycerides, cholesterol, and lipoprotein particle number in plasma and in main lipoproteins fractions according to time since the last meal.

Figure 1

Dots represent quadratic means adjusted for age and sex and error bars represent 95% confidence intervals. Plasma triglycerides and plasma cholesterol were measured on fresh blood samples using routine hospital assays. Triglyceride and cholesterol content in lipoprotein fractions were measured using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and corrected for recovery. The y-axes are on a logarithmic scale. Bonferroni corrected p-values based on 8 parallel tests using unpaired Student t-test versus fasting levels (≥8 hours) are as follows: *p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001. Abbreviations: HDL: high-density lipoproteins. IDL: intermediate-density lipoproteins. LDL: low-density lipoproteins. VLDL: very low-density lipoproteins.