Age-, Sex-, and Puberty-Associated Reference Intervals for Lipid Profile in Iranian Children and Adolescents

Table 3

Linear regression analysis for the effect of age, sex, stage of puberty, and BMI on lipid profile. values less than 0.05 are shown in bold. All of lipid concentrations are in mg/dL.

Data	TG			HDL			Chol			Non-HDL			LDL
	β	SE	value	β	SE	value	β	SE	value	β	SE	value	β	SE	value
Age	1.126	2.061	0.585	−1.082	0.683	0.114	1.058	1.264	0.403	2.140	1.208	0.077	1.892	1.103	0.087
Sex	1.866	4.948	0.993	0.817	1.640	0.618	−11.958	3.035	<0.001	−12.775	2.901	<0.001	−13.135	2.648	<0.001
Puberty	−3.875	3.563	0.277	1.304	1.181	0.270	−6.781	2.186	0.002	−8.084	2.089	<0.001	−7.275	1.907	<0.001
BMI	5.092	0.879	<0.001	−0.440	0.291	0.132	1.998	0.540	<0.001	2.438	0.516	<0.001	1.415	0.471	0.003