Supplementary Table 1. Correlations of PNs among total CM & VLDL and their subclasses measured by GP-HPLC and NMR (LP-3).

GP-HPLC	NMR LipoProfile 3 (LP-3)
	Total CM & VLDL		CM & Large VLDL		Medium VLDL		Small VLDL
	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P
Total CM & VLDL	0.658	＜0.0001	0.313	＜0.0001	0.502	＜0.0001	0.226	0.0009
CM & Large VLDL	0.560	＜0.0001	0.568	＜0.0001	0.576	＜0.0001	-0.096	0.1623
Medium VLDL	0.617	＜0.0001	-0.046	0.5041	0.341	＜0.0001	0.468	＜0.0001
Small VLDL	0.430	＜0.0001	-0.163	0.0177	0.170	0.0130	0.467	＜0.0001
GP-HPLC	NMR LipoProfile 3 (LP-3)
	Total LDL		IDL		Medium LDL		Small LDL
	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P
Total LDL	0.863	＜0.0001	0.329	＜0.0001	0.516	＜0.0001	0.615	＜0.0001
Large LDL	0.687	＜0.0001	0.347	＜0.0001	0.593	＜0.0001	0.284	＜0.0001
Medium LDL	0.868	＜0.0001	0.314	＜0.0001	0.578	＜0.0001	0.520	＜0.0001
Small LDL	0.750	＜0.0001	0.257	0.0002	0.291	＜0.0001	0.620	＜0.0001
GP-HPLC	NMR LipoProfile 3 (LP-3)
	Total HDL		Large HDL		Medium HDL		Small HDL
	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P
Total HDL	0.798	＜0.0001	0.390	＜0.0001	0.324	＜0.0001	0.532	＜0.0001
Large HDL	0.312	＜0.0001	0.551	＜0.0001	0.202	0.0032	-0.044	0.5194
Medium HDL	0.747	＜0.0001	0.477	＜0.0001	0.407	＜0.0001	0.329	＜0.0001
Small HDL	0.657	＜0.0001	0.110	0.1091	0.166	0.0157	0.588	＜0.0001

Baseline data ( n = 212)