Table 7.

Comparison of the direction of the relationship between age and different lipoprotein parameters across studies.

	This study	Freedman et al. (9)	Heijmans et al. (28)	Rajalahti et al. (29)
Small VLDL	+	n.s.	n.a.	+
Total LDL	+	+	–	+
Large LDL	+	n.s.	n.a.	+
Total HDL	+	n.s.	n.s.	+
Small HDL	+	n.s.	n.a.	+

n.s.: nonsignificant; n.a.: not available.