Lipoproteins were separated from 2.5 μl of individual plasma samples by size exclusion chromatography using a Superose 6 PC 3.2/300 column (GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences AB, Uppsala, Sweden). Lipoproteins were eluted as a fraction appearing in the exclusion volume of the sepharose column that contained VLDL, then LDL, and lastly HDL. TG concentrations were calculated after integration of the individual chromatograms (50 (link), 51 (link)), generated by the enzymatic-colorimetric reaction with the respective following kits, TG GPO-PAP (Roche Diagnostics, Mannheim, Germany).