Serum lipid and lipoprotein levels of middle-aged and elderly Chinese men and women in Shandong Province

Table 4 The Correlation of Total, LDL, and HDL Cholesterol and Triglycerides with Other Clinical Characteristics

	Simple linear regression		Multiple linear regression
	r	P	β	P
Serum total cholesterol, mmol/L
Age, y	0.165	< 0.001	0.169	< 0.001
Gender	0.14	< 0.001	0.163	< 0.001
Status of glucose metabolism	0.074	< 0.001	0.017	0.176
BMI, kg/m²	0.042	< 0.001	0.029	0.005
HbA1c, %	0.082	< 0.001	0.045	< 0.001
Serum Triglycerides, mmol/L
Age, y	0.022	0.03	− 0.018	0.091
Gender	− 0.022	0.026	−0.006	0.553
Status of glucose metabolism	0.125	< 0.001	0.02	0.104
BMI, kg/m²	0.138	< 0.001	0.115	< 0.001
HbA1c, %	0.204	< 0.001	0.171	< 0.001
Serum LDL cholesterol, mmol/L
Age, y	0.168	< 0.001	0.158	< 0.001
Gender	0.086	< 0.001	0.11	< 0.001
Status of glucose metabolism	0.083	< 0.001	−0.042	0.001
BMI, kg/m²	0.087	< 0.001	0.066	< 0.001
HbA1c, %	0.163	< 0.001	0.154	< 0.001
Serum HDL cholesterol, mmol/L
Age, y	−0.067	< 0.001	− 0.02	0.055
Gender	0.176	< 0.001	0.159	< 0.001
Status of glucose metabolism	−0.122	< 0.001	−0.102	< 0.001
BMI, kg/m²	−0.257	< 0.001	−0.24	< 0.001
HbA1c, %	−0.055	< 0.001	0.044	< 0.001

LDL low-density lipoprotein, HDL high-density lipoprotein, BMI body mass index

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