Serum Lipid Profile of Newly Diagnosed Hypertensive Patients in Nnewi, South-East Nigeria

Table 3

Showing Spearman’s correlations between lipid profile and clinical parameters.

	TC		LDL-C		HDL-C		TG
	Subjects	Controls	Subjects	Controls	Subjects	Controls	Subjects	Controls
SBP	−0.032	−0.047	−0.013	−0.041	−0.034	0.101	0.003	−0.007
DBP	−0.054	−0.041	−0.042	−0.007	−.066	0.055	−0.015	−0.036
BMI	0.176**	0.061	0.176**	0.067	−0.001	0.004	0.288**	0.026
WC	0.102	0.081	0.097	0.075	−0.241**	−0.041	0.293**	0.042
WHR	−0.101	0.013	−0.087	0.052	−0.063	−0.117	0.120	−0.038
FBS	0.168**	0.54	0.172**	0.009	−0.115	0.029	0.136*	0.06

∗Correlation significant at 𝑃=0.05; **Correlation significant at 𝑃=0.001; TG: triglycerides; HDL-C: high density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C: low density lipoprotein cholesterol; TC: total cholesterol.