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

Table 5 Effect of chronic active hepatitis C virus infection on the particle number for three very low-density lipoprotein sub-fractions analyzed by multiple regression models

	Large VLDL			Medium VLDL			Small VLDL
	B	SE	P value	B	SE	P value	B	SE	P value
Constant	-18.1	32.1	0.574	21.1	38.9	0.588	116.1	35.0	0.001
HCV infection (active HCV vs SVR)	-6.6	4.8	0.176	-4.0	5.9	0.494	3.0	5.3	0.564
Age	0.03	0.2	0.868	0.05	0.2	0.819	0.2	0.2	0.352
Female	-12.7	4.0	0.002	-7.2	4.9	0.145	9.1	4.4	0.040
BMI	0.9	0.6	0.126	1.1	0.7	0.122	0.7	0.6	0.263
ALT	0.01	0.08	0.878	0.03	0.09	0.750	0.1	0.08	0.247
Albumin	8.8	5.5	0.109	-0.7	6.6	0.912	-21.7	6.0	< 0.001
Glucose	-0.04	0.1	0.679	0.1	0.1	0.477	0.1	0.1	0.413
Platelet	-0.02	0.2	0.903	-0.2	0.2	0.355	-0.2	0.2	0.294

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