Correlation between Cholesterol, Triglycerides, Calculated, and Measured Lipoproteins: Whether Calculated Small Density Lipoprotein Fraction Predicts Cardiovascular Risks

Table 2

Correlation between various lipid parameters with anthropometric, blood pressure, and biochemical risk factors with lipid parameters.

	Total cholesterol	Fasting triglyceride	HDLc	mLDLc	Non-HDLc	cLDLc	sdLDLc	lbLDLc	sdLDLc/lbLDLc	mLDLc/HDLc
Body Mass Index (BMI)
Pearson Correlation	0.197	0.115	0.126	0.032	0.139	0.080	0.099	0.018	0.093	−0.045
Sig. (2-tailed)	0.003	0.081	0.056	0.626	0.035	0.224	0.132	0.783	0.160	0.500
	232	232	230	230	232	232	232	232	232	230
Waist to hip ratio (WhpR)
Pearson Correlation	0.205	0.173	−0.004	0.169	0.191	0.123	0.202	0.079	0.122	0.095
Sig. (2-tailed)	0.002	0.008	0.957	0.010	0.004	0.062	0.002	0.231	0.063	0.150
	232	232	230	230	232	232	232	232	232	230
Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c %)
Pearson Correlation	−0.050	0.101	0.032	−0.011	−0.040	−0.132	0.074	−0.068	0.149	−0.028
Sig. (2-tailed)	0.456	0.129	0.632	0.864	0.546	0.046	0.268	0.309	0.025	0.671
	228	228	227	226	228	228	228	228	228	227
Serum insulin (mIU/L)
Pearson Correlation	0.091	0.169	−0.068	0.001	0.109	0.026	0.090	−0.062	0.135	0.011
Sig. (2-tailed)	0.169	0.010	0.310	0.989	0.102	0.696	0.178	0.348	0.041	0.867
	228	228	227	227	228	228	228	228	228	227
HOMA-IR
Pearson Correlation	0.097	.290	−0.085	−0.035	0.125	−0.032	0.143	−0.143	0.0322	0.001
Sig. (2-tailed)	0.146	0.000	0.199	0.598	0.060	0.627	0.031	0.031	0.000	0.989
	228	228	227	227	228	228	228	228	228	227
HOMA % B
Pearson Correlation	0.041	0.022	−0.029	0.022	0.041	0.042	0.021	0.014	−0.029	0.007
Sig. (2-tailed)	0.536	0.744	0.659	0.743	0.535	0.530	0.751	0.830	0.666	0.911
	228	228	227	227	228	228	228	228	228	227
Urine albumin creatinine ratio (UACR)
Pearson Correlation	0.107	0.114	−0.079	0.098	0.154	0.083	0.130	0.059	0.049	0.153
Sig. (2-tailed)	0.162	0.135	0.304	0.197	0.042	0.276	0.088	0.443	0.523	0.044
	174	174	173	173	174	174	174	174	174	173
Systolic BP (SBP) mm of Hg
Pearson Correlation	0.125	0.143	0.112	0.020	0.078	−0.001	0.087	−0.048	0.122	−0.073
Sig. (2-tailed)	0.058	0.029	0.090	0.758	0.238	0.984	0.185	0.468	0.065	0.271
	232	232	230	230	232	232	232	232	232	230
Diastolic BP (DBP) mm of Hg
Pearson Correlation	0.145	0.160	0.056	0.006	0.110	0.031	0.096	−0.043	0.130	−0.018
Sig. (2-tailed)	0.028	0.015	0.401	0.934	0.095	0.640	0.144	0.512	0.047	0.781
	232	232	230	230	232	232	232	232	232	230

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed); correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed); Homeostasis Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR); Homeostasis Model Assessment for insulin sensitivity (HOMA % B).