However, the prevalence rate of hypertriglyceridemia showed an upward trend in individuals with a serum ApoA5 level of Q1 to Q3 and then declined in Q4, showing a significant inverted “U-shaped” trend after adjusting for the confounding factors (P=0.043), as shown in Table 3. The gene discussed is APOA5; the disease is hypertriglyceridemia.