Consistency of genetic inheritance mode and heritability patterns of triglyceride vs. high density lipoprotein cholesterol ratio in two Taiwanese family samples

Table 1 Various lipid profiles in the two study population samples

	Community-based (N= 988)				Hospital-based (N= 1313)
	Mean	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis	Mean	SD	Skewness	Kurtosis
Age (years)	34.0	20.1	0.80	-0.47	54.7	11.5	-0.27	0.14
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	182.4	39.7	0.74	2.15	194.4	36.2	0.25	1.37
Triglyceride (mg/dL)	117.5	93.3	3.61	18.23	130.4	79.3	2.26	8.05
HDL cholesterol (mg/dL)	42.9	10.5	0.53	0.34	52.8	14.6	0.81	0.88
LDL cholesterol (mg/dL)	103.0	41.6	0.53	0.41	116.2	31.2	0.55	0.55
Triglyceride vs. HDL ratio	3.15	3.53	5.45	48.53	2.86	2.37	2.55	9.30
Logarithm of triglyceride vs. HDL-C ratio	0.85	0.70	0.76	0.89	0.80	0.70	0.22	-0.19

Abbreviations: SD: standard deviation, HDL-C: high density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C: low density lipoprotein cholesterol