Estimation of plasma apolipoprotein B concentration using routinely measured lipid biochemical tests in apparently healthy Asian adults Full Text
Cardiovascular Diabetology, 05/25/2012
Clinical Article
Cho DS et al. – The equation for predicting apo B concentrations from routine analytical lipid biochemistry provides a simple method for obtaining precise information about an important cardiovascular risk marker.
Methods- The authors examined the clinical and laboratory data from 73,047 Koreans who underwent a medical health check that included apolipoprotein B concentration.
- The study sample was randomly divided into a training set for prediction model building and a validation set of equal size.
- Multivariable linear regression analysis was used to develop a prediction model equation for estimating apo B and to validate the developed model.
- The best results for estimating apo B were derived from an equation utilising LDL and triglyceride (TG) concentrations [ApoB=-33.12+0.675*LDL+11.95*ln(tg)].
- This equation predicted the apo B result with a concordance correlation coefficient (CCC and 95%CIs) = 0.936 (0.935,0.937)).
