Atherosclerotic Risk Factors in Children with Celiac Disease

Table 6

Analysis of the biochemical parameters in CD patients in the retrospective group and healthy controls (reference group). Significant results are shown with bold font.

	CD patients (retrospective group, )		Reference group ()		value	95% CI
Parameter	Mean	SD	Mean	SD		Min	Max
TCH	153.6	28.8	166.8	30.5	0.0005	-20.6	-5.8
Tg	85.1	42.1	74.0	32.2	0.0269	1.3	21.0
LDL-C	88.2	27.5	101.8	27.2	0.0001	-20.5	-6.7
VLDL-C	15.98	7.21	14.42	5.91	0.0748	-0.16	3.28
HDL-C	49.73	14.05	50.59	12.31	0.6196	-4.26	2.55
TCH-HDL-C	3.362	1.312	3.440	0.912	0.6121	-0.381	0.225
LDL-C-HDL-C	1.991	1.113	2.141	0.817	0.2539	-0.409	0.108
APOA1	1.383	0.367	1.483	0.239	0.0072	-0.173	-0.027
APOB	0.66	0.20	1.05	0.32	0.00001	-0.46	-0.32
AI-B	2.32	1.00	1.57	0.59	0.00001	0.56	0.94
B-AI	0.557	0.441	0.724	0.254	0.001	-0.266	-0.068
hsCRP	0.39	0.31	0.52	0.42	0.00001	0.00	0.00

SD: standard deviation; TCH: total cholesterol; TG: triglycerides; APOA1: apolipoprotein A1; APOB: 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; TAS: total antioxidant status; TC/HDL-C, LDL-C/HDL-C, and A1/B: indicators of atherosclerosis; hsCRP: high-sensitivity CRP.