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Table 2 Lipid distribution in early pregnancy for women with and without the metabolic syndrome six years after pregnancy (n = 3510)

From: Gestational lipid profile as an early marker of metabolic syndrome in later life: a population-based prospective cohort study

  Without metabolic syndrome
n = 3160
With metabolic syndrome
n = 350
P-value
Total cholesterol, mmol/L 4.81 (0.87) 5.09 (0.90) < 0.001
Triglycerides, mmol/L 1.22 (0.71 to 2.19) 1.66 (1.00 to 3.09) < 0.001
LDL-c, mmol/L 2.41 (0.72) 2.68 (0.78) < 0.001
HDL-c, mmol/L 1.81 (0.34) 1.58 (0.33) < 0.001
Remnant cholesterol, mmol/L 0.55 (0.32 to 1.00) 0.75 (0.45 to 1.37) < 0.001
Non-HDL-c, mmol/L 3.00 (0.82) 3.50 (0.88) < 0.001
  1. Data are presented as mean (SD) or as median (90% range) depending on normal or skewed distributions. Differences between groups are tested through a Students t test or Mann Whitney U test. Abbreviations: LDL-c, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-c, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol