Independent association of serum squalene and noncholesterol sterols with coronary artery disease in postmenopausal women
Radhakrishnan A. Rajaratnam, MDa,
Helena Gylling, MD, PhDa and
Tatu A. Miettinen, MD, PhDa
a Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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Figure 1 Association between serum squalene to cholesterol ratio and serum total cholesterol. Closed circles are cases and open circles are controls.
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Figure 2 Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves for predicting the presence of coronary artery disease by squalene to cholesterol ratio, LDL cholesterol and serum triglycerides. Area under the curve for the squalene ratio was 0.885; LDL cholesterol was 0.651 and serum triglycerides was 0.617.
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