Lipids in Health and Disease

Table 3 Correlations among plasma Hcy levels, thyroid function, and blood lipid indexes

From: Homocysteine diminishes apolipoprotein A-I function and expression in patients with hypothyroidism: a cross-sectional study

	Control group (n = 94)		SHO (n = 91)		HO (n = 73)
	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value
Age, years	0.101	0.331	0.114	0.284	0.048	0.685
BMI, km/m²	0.139	0.180	−0.090	0.398	0.121	0.309
FT3, pg/ml	−0.178	0.087	0.125	0.239	−0.543	<0.001**
FT4, ng/dl	−0.102	0.327	−0.184	0.080	−0.504	<0.001**
TSH, μIU/ml	−0.029	0.781	0.264	0.011*	0.461	<0.001**
CHOL, mmol/l	0.097	0.352	0.093	0.383	0.128	0.282
HDL-C, mmol/l	−0.178	0.085	−0.356	0.001**	−0.375	0.001**
LDL-C, mmol/l	0.082	0.434	0.204	0.052	0.046	0.697
TG, mmol/l	−0.041	0.693	0.039	0.716	0.103	0.387
Apo A-I, g/l	−0.317	0.002**	−0.337	0.001**	−0.320	0.006**
Apo B, g/l	0.073	0.482	0.185	0.080	0.002	0.990

To investigate the correlation among plasma Hcy levels, blood lipids and thyroid function indexes in controls and patients with HO or SHO, we used Spearman’s rank correlation to assess these potential associations. FT3 free tri-iodothyronine, FT4 free thyroxine, TSH thyrotropin; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01

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