Relationship between the HDL-C concentration and the clinical characteristics in 228 patients with NSCLC.

Mean ± SD stands for Mean ± standard deviation; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; CRP, C-reactive protein; EGFR, Epidermal growth factor receptor; SCC, squamous cell carcinoma.*P values were calculated by the unpaired Student’s t-tests or one-way ANOVA, P**P values were calculated by the chi-square test (χ2 test), P†Low serum HDL-C was defined as ††BMI, body mass index, weight divided by height squared kg/m2.||The level of serum TG at 150 mg/dL or greater was defined as hypertriglyceridemia.§Tobacco index indicated cigarettes per day multiplied years of smoking.#The EGFR mutation status was unknown in 72 patients of the whole cohort.‡TNM denoted tumor-node-metastasis.