Table 1

Overall clinical and biological parameters of 55 obese subjects and 15 lean controls

Phenotype
Obese subjects
Lean controls

n
55
15
Female/Male
52/3
15/0
Age (years)
40.13 ± 11.67
34.2 ± 8.52
BMI (kg/m2)
44.07 ± 9.06*
23.67 ± 1.51
Glucose homeostasis


     Glucose (mmol/l)
5.56 ± 1.70
4.82 ± 1.01
     Insulin (μU/ml)
13.51 ± 8.57
7.20 ± 3.49
     QUICKI
0.33 ± 0.05
0.36 ± 0.04
Type 2 diabetes


     Glycemia > 7 mmol/l or treatment
6 (11%)
0
Lipid homeostasis


     Cholesterol (mmol/l)
5.22 ± 1.04
4.36 ± 1.05
     HDL cholesterol (mmol/l)
1.27 ± 0.34
1.43 ± 0.23
     Triglycerides (mmol/l)
1.40 ± 0.62
0.45 ± 0.10
Adipokines


     Leptin (ng/ml)
54.55 ± 19.92
11.24 ± 1.12
     Adiponectin (μg/ml)
7.14 ± 2.87
-
Risk factors


     HDL < 1.03 mmol/l (M), < 1.29 mmol/l (F)
26 (47%)*
1 (6%)
     Hypertension ≥ 130/85 mmHg
11 (20%)
0
     Glucose ≥ 5.6 mmol/l
17 (31%)
1 (6%)
     Triglycerides ≥ 1.7 mmol/l
11 (20%)
0
Inflammatory factors


     TNF-α (pg/ml)
1.77 ± 0.62
-
     IL6 (pg/ml)
2.24 ± 1.17
-
     hsCRP (mg/dl)
8.62 ± 10.38
-
     Orosomucoid (g/l)
0.99 ± 0.18
-
     Serum amyloid A (μg/ml)
21.35 ± 22.39
-
Hepatic factors


     Aspartate aminotransferase (IU/l)
22.66 ± 6.87
-
     Alanine aminotransferase (IU/l)
35.72 ± 18.56
-
     γGT (mg/dl)
45.91 ± 46.43
-

*Bilateral significance p value < 0.05 for the difference between the two groups. Bilateral significance p value < 0.001 for the difference between the two groups. Hyphens indicate parameters that were not available for the lean controls group. F, female; HDL, high-density lipoproteins; M, male.

Henegar et al. Genome Biology 2008 9:R14   doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-1-r14