Research Article

Emergent Biomarkers of Residual Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Low HDL-c and/or High Triglycerides and Average LDL-c Concentrations: Focus on HDL Subpopulations, Oxidized LDL, Adiponectin, and Uric Acid

Table 1

Anthropometric data and general characterization of the populations under study.

Parameters(1) Effects of TGs levels (normal versus high) on normal and low HDL-c conditions/populations  (2) Effects of HDL-c levels (normal versus high) on normal and high TGs conditions (3) Effects of variations of both HDL-c and TGs levels
Normal HDL-c ( )Low HDL-c ( )
Normal TGs ( ) Population AHigh TGs ( ) Population B
A versus B
Normal TGs ( ) Population CHigh TGs ( ) Population D
C versus D
(Normal TGs) (A versus C)(High TGs)   
(B versus D)

A versus D

B versus C

Age (years) 0.491 0.6400.5080.4490.8730.324
BMI (Kg/m2) 0.020 0.0460.8390.9720.0270.048
WC (cm) 0.049 0.0450.2280.7070.3060.007
SBP (mmHg) 0.748 0.7850.4850.2590.1910.939
DBP (mmHg) 0.830 0.8380.3920.3890.4140.535
Glycemia (mmol/L) 0.096 0.0640.7590.4040.0150.084
HbA1c (%) 0.143 0.1260.4310.0820.0000.833

Results are presented as media ± SEM. Independent samples -test and Mann-Whitney test for normalized and nonnormalized samples, respectively. BMI: body mass index; HbA1c: glycated hemoglobin; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; WC: waist circumference.