Association between high-density lipoprotein cholesterol level and pulmonary function in healthy Korean adolescents: the JS high school study

Table 2 Correlations between lung function and relevant factors, stratified by sex

Variable	FVC		FEV1		Percent predicted FVC		Percent predicted FEV1		FEV1/FVC, %
Variable	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Men (n = 318)
Age	0.135	0.016	0.149	0.008	0.193	0.001	0.208	<.001	0.027	0.637
Body mass index	0.338	<.001	0.203	<.001	0.455	<.001	0.293	<.001	−0.274	<.001
Systolic blood pressure	0.192	0.001	0.128	0.023	0.219	<.001	0.148	0.008	−0.116	0.039
Diastolic blood pressure	0.053	0.349	0.015	0.784	−0.013	0.812	−0.063	0.261	−0.058	0.305
Total cholesterol	−0.049	0.388	−0.044	0.431	−0.084	0.135	−0.070	0.216	−0.021	0.708
HDL cholesterol	−0.158	0.005	−0.137	0.015	−0.172	0.002	−0.165	0.003	0.037	0.514
Triglycerides	0.006	0.916	0.013	0.823	−0.005	0.927	0.003	0.955	0.003	0.951
Women (n = 326)
Age	0.020	0.719	0.028	0.617	0.076	0.174	0.096	0.082	0.028	0.619
Body mass index	0.220	<.001	0.197	<.001	0.358	<.001	0.301	<.001	−0.011	0.840
Systolic blood pressure	0.125	0.024	0.111	0.045	0.076	0.170	0.069	0.213	0.029	0.596
Diastolic blood pressure	−0.039	0.484	−0.046	0.411	−0.063	0.259	−0.055	0.325	−0.008	0.880
Total cholesterol	−0.068	0.221	−0.039	0.482	−0.018	0.748	0.003	0.961	0.055	0.322
HDL cholesterol	−0.075	0.180	−0.050	0.375	−0.112	0.044	−0.087	0.121	0.000	0.994
Triglycerides	0.121	0.030	0.125	0.025	−0.009	0.877	0.030	0.594	0.077	0.167

Abbreviations: HDL high density lipoprotein, FVC forced vital capacity, FEV1 forced expiratory volume in one second

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