Lipid profile in spinal cord-injured women with different injury levels

Conclusion. Despite the extreme reduction of VO2max, the assumed physical inactivity and low serum catecholamine levels due to the impairment of the sympathetic nervous system, female tetraplegic persons did not show an adverse lipoprotein profile with respect to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels. If the higher low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations in female with spinal cord injury with low lesion levels or the elevated TG levels in female tetraplegics bare relevance with respect to an increased cardiovascular risk in this population needs to be clarified in further longitudinal investigations.