Impact of glucose and lipid markers on the correlation of calculated and enzymatic measured low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in diabetic patients with coronary artery disease.

Although F-LDL might underestimate the value of LDL-C, the correlation between F-LDL and E-LDL was clinically acceptable (r = .97), suggesting the LDL-C values measured by two methods were similarly reliable in CAD patients with or without DM.