Table 1.

Spearman correlation coefficients r between each pair of lipid measures

	TC	TG	LDL-c	Non-HDL-c	Lp(a)	ApoB	Non-HDL-c /HDL-c
TG	0.386
LDL-c	0.922	0.245
Non-HDL-c	0.954	0.491	0.922
Lp(a)	0.124	-0.088	0.165	0.113
ApoB	0.860	0.439	0.859	0.892	0.200
Non-HDL-c /HDL-c	0.551	0.572	0.601	0.757	0.046	0.656
ApoB/apoA-1	0.554	0.397	0.661	0.704	0.180	0.815	0.816

r ≤ 0.2: no correlation; 0.2 < r ≤ 0.4: weak correlation; 0.4 < r ≤ 0.6: medium correlation; 0.6 < r ≤ 0.8: high correlation; r > 0.8: strong correlation. LDL-c, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-c, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; lp(a), lipoprotein (a); apo, apolipoprotein