Intercorrelations among plasma high density lipoprotein, obesity and triglycerides in a normal population

Journal Article · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980 · Lipids; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02534017· OSTI ID:6122202

Albrink, M J ^[1]; Krauss, R M; Lindgren, F T; von der Groeben, J; Pan, S; Wood, P D

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1. West Virgina Unov., Morgantown

The interrelationships among fatness measures, plasma triglycerides and high density lipoproteins (HDL) were examined in 131 normal adult subjects: 38 men aged 27 to 46, 50 men aged 47 to 66, 29 women aged 27 to 46 and 24 women aged 47 to 66. None of the women were taking estrogens or oral contraceptive medication. The HDL concentration was subdivided into HDL/sub 2b/, HDL/sub 2a/ and HDL by a computerized fitting of the total schileren pattern to reference schlieren patterns. Anthropometric measures employed included skinfolds at 3 sites, 2 weight/height indices and 2 girth measurements. A high correlation was found among the various fatness measures. These measures were negatively correlated with total HDL, reflecting the negative correlation between fatness measures and HDL/sub 2/ (as the sum of HDL/sub 2a/ and /sub 2b/). Fatness measures showed no relationship to HDL/sub 3/. There was also an inverse correlation between triglyceride concentration and HDL/sub 2/. No particular fatness measure was better than any other for demonstrating the inverse correlation with HDL but multiple correlations using all of the measures of obesity improved the correlations. Partial correlations controlling for fatness did not reduce any of the significnt correlations between triglycerides and HDL/sub 2/ to insignificance. The weak correlation between fatness and triglycerides was reduced to insigifnicance when controlled for HDL/sub 2/.

• OSTI ID: 6122202
• Journal Information: Lipids; (United States), Vol. 15 :9
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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