Pairwise inter-relationships between metabolic variables
| Total cholesterol | Triglycerides | HDL | HDL/ cholesterol | LDL | SBP | DBP | |
| GHbA1C | r = 0.181 | r = 0.546 | r = -0.329 | r = -0.444 | r = 0.253 | r = 0.223 | r = 0.016 |
| p = 0.419 | p = 0.009 | p = 0.135 | p = 0.039 | p = 0.257 | p = 0.319 | p = 0.942 | |
| Total cholesterol | r = 0.424 | r = 0.229 | r = -0.378 | r = 0.903 | r = -0.061 | r = 0.096 | |
| p = 0.049 | p = 0.305 | p = 0.082 | p = 0.000 | p = 0.786 | p = 0.670 | ||
| Triglycerides | r = -0.572 | r = -0.760 | r = 0.563 | r = -0.019 | r = -0.005 | ||
| p = 0.005 | p = 0.000 | p = 0.006 | p = 0.932 | p = 0.981 | |||
| HDL | r = 0.802 | r = -0.181 | r = 0.106 | r = 0.219 | |||
| p = 0.000 | p = 0.420 | p = 0.637 | p = 0.327 | ||||
| HDL/cholesterol | r = -0.713 | r = 0.085 | r = 0.141 | ||||
| p = 0.000 | p = 0.705 | p = 0.530 | |||||
| LDL | r = -0.135 | r = -0.027 | |||||
| p = 0.548 | p = 0.904 | ||||||
| SBP | r = 0.738 | ||||||
| p = 0.000 |
GHbA1C: glycosylated haemoglobin A1C; HDL: high-density lipoprotein; LDL: low-density lipoprotein; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure. GHbA1c, cholesterol and triglyceride levels are correlated, as are the SBP and DBP. Statistically significant correlations (r-values with p<0.05) are bolded.