Table 3.

Frequency of metabolites identified by elastic net penalized Cox regression in the sixteen selected models

Name of metabolite	N (%)
Glucose (mmol/l)	16/16 (100)
Phospholipids to total lipids ratio in medium HDL (%)	15/16 (93.8)
Creatinine (mmol/l)	10/16 (62.5)
Triglycerides to total lipids ratio in very large VLDL (%)	8/16 (50.0)
Phospholipids to total lipids ratio in medium VLDL (%)	5/16 (31.3)
Alanine (mmol/l)	5/16 (31.3)
β-hydroxybutyrate (mmol/l)	3/16 (18.8)
Free cholesterol to total lipids ratio in small HDL (%)	2/16 (12.5)
Citrate (mmol/l)	2/16 (12.5)
Free cholesterol to total lipids ratio in very large VLDL (%)	1/16 (6.3)
Free cholesterol to total lipids ratio in large HDL (%)	1/16 (6.3)
Triglycerides to total lipids ratio in medium HDL (%)	1/16 (6.3)
Phospholipids to total lipids ratio in small HDL (%)	1/16 (6.3)
Sphingomyelins (mmol/l)	1/16 (6.3)
Albumin (signal area)	1/16 (6.3)

VLDL very low-density lipoproteins, HDL high-density lipoprotein