Atherosclerotic Risk Factors in Children with Celiac Disease

Table 4

Analysis of the biochemical parameters in celiac patients and controls. Significant results are shown with bold font.

Parameter	All CD patients ()		Reference group ()		value	95% CI
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD		Min	Max
TCH	154.2	29.2	166.8	30.5	0.0010	-20.1	-5.1
TG	84.7	42.1	74.0	32.2	0.0325	0.9	20.6
LDL-C	88.8	27.9	101.8	27.2	0.0003	-20.0	-6.1
VLDL-C	15.91	7.20	14.42	5.91	0.0868	-0.22	3.21
HDL-C	49.78	14.01	50.59	12.31	0.6394	-4.20	2.58
TCH-HDL-C	3.367	1.306	3.440	0.912	0.6354	-0.374	0.229
LDL-C-HDL-C	1.999	1.110	2.141	0.817	0.2766	-0.400	0.115
ApoA1	1.385	0.366	1.483	0.239	0.0083	-0.170	-0.025
ApoB	0.66	0.20	1.05	0.32	0.00001	-0.46	-0.31
A1-B	2.31	1.00	1.57	0.59	0.00001	0.55	0.93
B-A1	0.558	0.438	0.724	0.254	0.0010	-0.264	-0.068

SD: standard deviation; TCH: total cholesterol; TG: triglycerides; A1: apolipoprotein A1; B: apolipoprotein B; apoE: apolipoprotein E; Lp(a): lipoprotein (a); LDL-C: low-density cholesterol; VLDL-C: very low-density cholesterol; HDL-C: high-density cholesterol; TC/HDL-C, LDL-C/HDL-C, A1-B, and B-A1: indicators of atherosclerosis.