Hepatitis C virus G1b infection decreases the number of small low-density lipoprotein particles

Table 4 Effect of chronic active hepatitis C virus infection on particle number of four low-density lipoprotein sub-fractions analyzed by multiple regression models

	Large LDL			Medium LDL			Small LDL			Very small LDL
	B	SE	P value	B	SE	P value	B	SE	P value	B	SE	P value
Constant	206.0	93.4	0.029	-263.6	202.3	0.195	-274.1	139.6	0.051	-39.8	64.6	0.538
HCV infection (Active HCV vs SVR)	0.4	14.1	0.978	-66.4	30.5	0.031	-55.3	21.0	0.009	-28.8	9.7	0.004
Age	0.9	0.5	0.086	2.1	1.1	0.072	1.2	0.8	0.128	0.6	0.4	0.083
Female	42.6	11.7	< 0.001	9.2	25.5	0.719	-29.7	17.6	0.093	-10.5	8.1	0.198
BMI	1.7	1.7	0.308	5.0	3.7	0.177	3.7	2.6	0.151	1.2	1.2	0.297
ALT	0.1	0.2	0.584	-0.1	0.5	0.823	-0.1	0.3	0.726	-0.1	0.2	0.404
Albumin	-14.1	16.0	0.378	121.2	34.6	0.001	80.6	23.8	0.001	26.1	11.0	0.019
Glucose	0.2	0.3	0.519	1.3	0.7	0.060	0.7	0.5	0.149	0.2	0.2	0.412
Platelet	-0.3	0.5	0.507	-0.2	1.1	0.877	0.0	0.7	0.967	-0.04	0.3	0.917

LDL: Low-density lipoprotein; SE: Standard error; HCV: Hepatitis C virus; SVR: Sustained virological response; BMI: Body mass index; ALT: Alanine 2-oxoglutarate aminotransferase.