Table 2. Comparison of hormonal and inflammatory profile between non-BED and BED groups.
| Non-BED group | BED group | p | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | ± | SD | Median | Min. | Max. | Mean | ± | SD | Median | Min. | Max. | ||
| Leptin (pg/mL) | 25.8 | ± | 7.7 | 25.7 | 11.5 | 38.6 | 34.3 | ± | 11.3 | 31.2 | 12.7 | 50.1 | 0.01 |
| Glucagon-like peptide 1 (pg/mL) † | 27.4 | ± | 14.7 | 25.9 | 11.0 | 55.9 | 51.9 | ± | 38.5 | 32.4 | 14.5 | 134 | 0.02 |
| Ghrelin (pg/mL) † | 6.8 | ± | 2.9 | 5.4 | 4.0 | 13.6 | 6.8 | ± | 6.9 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 28.9 | 0.97 |
| C reactive protein (µg/mL) | 16.5 | ± | 10.1 | 16.3 | 2.9 | 40.0 | 27.5 | ± | 14.6 | 23.5 | 9.9 | 62.2 | 0.01 |
| Tumor necrosis fator α (pg/mL) | 3.6 | ± | 2.5 | 4.0 | 0.6 | 9.0 | 5.5 | ± | 1.5 | 6.0 | 1.9 | 7.0 | 0.01 |
| Interleukin 6 (pg/mL) † | 5.0 | ± | 6.2 | 3.1 | 0.9 | 21.9 | 5.0 | ± | 8.3 | 2.4 | 0.9 | 31.4 | 0.50 |
†
Variables converted to logarithms for statistical analysis. BED: binge eating disorder. Ghrelin was tested with the Mann-Whitney test, all other variables were tested with the Student’s t-test.
p < 0.05: statistically significant.