Variations of Lipoprotein(a) Levels in the Metabolic Syndrome: A Report from the Maracaibo City Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence Study

Table 4

Serum Lp(a) concentration assessed by criteria for the metabolic syndrome. The Maracaibo City Metabolic Syndrome Prevalence Study, 2013.

MS criteria^‡	Lp(a) (mg/dL)
	Mean	SD
High waist circumference
Absent	24.99	12.19
Present	28.22	12.54
𝑃^∗	1.93×10^−6
High blood pressure
Absent	26.29	12.20
Present	29.15	12.83
𝑃^∗	2.5×10^−6
High basal glycemia
Absent	27.61	12.03
Present	26.95	13.62
𝑃^∗	0.328
Low HDL-C
Absent	26.51	12.81
Present	28.07	12.29
𝑃^∗	0.009
High TAG
Absent	26.63	12.26
Present	29.57	13.02
𝑃^∗	1.83×10^−5

MS: metabolic syndrome; SD: standard deviation; TAGs: triacylglycerides.
^‡Defined by IDF/AHA/NHLBI/WHF/IASO-2009.
*Student’s 𝑡-test.