Lipids in Health and Disease

Table 4 Associations between intimal (and media) thickness and subjects’ characteristics

From: The more critical murderer of atherosclerosis than lipid metabolism: chronic stress

Characteristics	Intimal thickness					Media thickness
	Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient coefficient		Multiple linear regression			Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient		Multiple linear regression
	ρ^a	p-value	β^b	p-value	VIF	ρ^a	p-value	β^b	p-value	VIF
Sex	0.077	0.653	−0.012	0.927	1.145	0.026	0.877	−0.039	0.089	1.145
Condition	0.658	< 0.001*	0.632	< 0.001*	4.355	0.747	< 0.001*	0.083	0.004*	4.355
AST	0.242	0.149	−0.011	0.127	1.685	0.436	0.007*	0.001	0.781	1.685
LDLC	0.488	0.002*	− 0.040	0.288	29.772	0.552	< 0.001*	− 0.002	0.778	29.772
TC	0.498	0.002*	0.011	0.510	24.568	0.446	0.006*	− 0.001	0.788	24.568
TG	0.080	0.640	0.238	0.127	1.683	0.243	0.147	0.069	0.013*	1.683

Condition: normal; High fat diet; High fat diet plus chronic stress
AST glutamic oxalacetic transaminase, LDLC Low Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, TC total cholesterol, TG triglyceride, VIF variance inflation factor
^aSpearman’s rank correlation coefficient between intimal (and media) thickness and each variable; ρ: Spearman’s correlation coefficient
^bMultiple linear regression analysis, β: parameter estimate;
*Significant variables

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