Arsenic-induced dyslipidemia in male albino rats: comparison between trivalent and pentavalent inorganic arsenic in drinking water

Table 3 Association between tissue arsenic levels and some lipid parameters in the animals on exposure to sodium arsenite and sodium arsenate for 12 weeks through drinking water

	Plasma FFA	HDL cholesterol	Hepatic HMG CoA reductase	Brain HMG CoA reductase
Parameter	Correlation coefficient (r)	Correlation coefficient (r)	Correlation coefficient (r)	Correlation coefficient (r)
Liver arsenic	0.491^a	−0.634^a	NS	−0.382^a
Kidney arsenic	0.577^a	−0.614^a	−0.365^a	−0.537^a
Brain arsenic	0.602^a	−0.611^a	NS	−0.556^a
Blood arsenic	0.578^a	−0.732^a	NS	−0.584^a

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