HDL Particle Size and Functionality Comparison between Patients with and without Confirmed Acute Myocardial Infarction

Table 1

Comparison of REAMI and CP groups’ lipid profile and other lipoprotein-derived serum biomarkers determined in the study.

	TC	TG	HDL-c	LDL-c	N-HDL-c	FC	EC
REAMI	177 ± 6.9	146 ± 14.2	41 ± 1.7	106 ± 5.9	135 ± 6.9	64 ± 3	189 ± 12
()	38	38	38	38	38	38	38
CP	203 ± 5.8	149 ± 10.7	61 ± 2.9	112 ± 5.2	141 ± 5.6	75 ± 3	208 ± 7
()	40	40	40	40	40	40	34
()	<0.005	ns	<0.0001	ns	ns

Results are expressed as mean and standard deviation. The unit mg/dL was adopted to lipid profile. TC = total cholesterol; TG = triglycerides; HDL-c = high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-c = low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; N-HDL-c = total cholesterol minus HDL cholesterol; FC = free cholesterol; EC = esterified cholesterol; ns = not significant. From the REAMI group (total participants: ), only 38 were evaluated, because seven patients missed lipid profile results. Unpaired t-test, . Significant differences between groups when , for a 95% confidence interval.