Does Total cholesterol/HDL-C ratio predict Ischemic heart disease better than non-HDL-C in middle-aged women?
While TC/HDL-C ratio has higher predictive ability for ischemic heart disease, non-HDL-C may be easier to calculate and interpret for early risk identification in clinical practice.
TC/HDL-C ratio and non-HDL-C are both clinical predictors for IHD in middle-aged women. The results indicate that the predictive ability of TC/HDL-C was higher than that of non-HDL-C; however, non-HDL-C was linearly related to IHD (p = 0.58) and may be easier to calculate and interpret in clinical practice, for early identification of future IHD in women.
Calling et al. (Mon,) studied this question.