Racial and Ethnic Variation in Lipoprotein (a) Levels among Asian Indian and Chinese Patients

Table 2

Lp(a) summary results by sex and race/ethnicity.

	Male			Female
(N)	NHW (1126)	Asian	Chinese (93)	NHW (896)	Asian	Chinese (58)
		Indian (213)			Indian (82)
Lp(a) (nmol/L)
Median^M	27	35	19	34	41	27
Percent in highest quintile	18%	22%	10%	24%	26%	14%
Percent with Lp(a) > 75	22%	26%	11%	28%	28%	19%

NHW: Non-Hispanic White.
The highest quintile of Lp(a) was defined for Lp(a) ≥ 89 nmoL/L.
M,FKruskal-Wallis or Chi-square test 𝑃<.0001 for men or women, respectively.
No group was significantly different than the other two by pair-wise Brown-Mood tests of the median at 𝑃<.0001.