The Apolipoprotein B/Apolipoprotein A-I Ratio as a Potential Marker of Plasma Atherogenicity

Table 3

Spearman correlation coefficients between the apoA-I, apoB, apoB/apoA-I ratio, and other lipid parameters ().

	ApoA-I		ApoB		ApoB/apoA-I ratio
	Spearman,	-level	Spearman,	-level	Spearman,	-level
TC	0.06	0.443	0.17	0.031	0.06	0.421
TG	−0.04	0.577	0.41	<0.001	0.32	<0.001
HDL-C	0.07	0.335	−0.06	0.426	−0.07	0.362
LDL-C	0.08	0.301	0.12	0.125	0.04	0.655
Non-HDL-C	0.08	0.312	0.21	0.010	0.09	0.240
TC/HDL-C	0.08	0.302	0.21	0.009	0.12	0.139
ApoE	−0.01	0.867	−0.28	<0.001	−0.19	0.012
AIP	−0.02	0.797	0.42	<0.001	0.33	<0.001

Data are correlation coefficients and values. The Spearman’s rank correlation was used.