The relationships between plasma HDL cholesterol, apolipoprotein A-I, and plasma ascorbic acid were examined in 146 women and 92 men in a Chinese population in Boston, aged 60 and above. A significant partial correlation (r = 0.21, p = 0.015) between plasma ascorbic acid and plasma HDL cholesterol was observed among (predominantly nonsmoking) females after the effects of potentially confounding variables were taken into account. A similar relationship among 26 nonsmoking men was suggestive but inconclusive; there was no evidence of a relationship among 66 male smokers. The partial correlation between plasma apolipoprotein A-I and plasma ascorbic acid was marginally significant for women (r = 0.22, p = 0.057, n = 87) but was highly significant for men (r = 0.43, p = 0.007, n = 51). The correlation coefficient for men was highly dependent on smoking status, being 0.80 for those who never smoked and almost zero for current smokers.
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