Estimated short-term and long-term variation of lipoprotein profiles
| TC | LDL | HDL | TC/HDL | LDL/HDL | |
| ‘Signal (S)’: Long-term variation | |||||
| Year 1 | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.004 | 0.04 | 0.02 |
| Year 3 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.012 | 0.12 | 0.07 |
| ‘Noise (N)’: Short-term within-person variation | 0.12 | 0.08 | 0.02 | 0.08 | 0.05 |
| (CV, %) | (6.4) | (9.4) | (8.0) | (7.9) | (10.6) |
| S/N ratio | |||||
| Year 1 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.4 |
| Year 3 | 0.8 | 0.99 | 0.7 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
CV, coefficient of variation; HDL, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; S/N, signal-to-noise; TC, total cholesterol.