Table 4.

Bivariate correlation analyses.

		Group	CHO	TG	HDL	LDL
Group	Pearson correlation	1	-0.267	-0.376	0.111	-0.189
	p		0.001∗∗	0.001∗∗	0.127	0.009∗∗
CHO	Pearson correlation	-0.267	1	0.460	0.420	0.963
	p	0.001∗∗		0.001∗∗	0.001∗∗	0.001∗∗
TG	Pearson correlation	-0.376	0.460	1	-0.127	0.360
	p	0.001∗∗	0.001∗∗		0.08	0.001∗∗
HDL	Pearson correlation	0.111	0.420	-0.127	1	0.464
	p	0.127	0.001∗∗	0.08		0.001∗∗
LDL	Pearson correlation	-0.189	0.963	0.360	0.464	1
	p	0.009∗∗	0.001∗∗	0.001∗∗	0.001∗∗

CHO: cholesterol; TG: triglyceride; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; ^∗p < 0.05; ^∗∗p < 0.01.