| ACC | acetyl-CoA carboxylase |
| Acsl | acyl-CoA synthetase |
| AUC | area under the glycemic curve |
| B-H | Benjamini–Hochberg |
| Cish | cytokine-inducible SH2 domain containing protein |
| Cryab | crystallin alpha B |
| CVD | cardiovascular disease |
| DEG | differentially expressed genes |
| FDR | false discovery rate |
| GSH | glutathione |
| HMW adiponectin | high molecular weight adiponectin |
| hsCRP | high sensitivity C-reactive protein |
| HHTg | hereditary hypertriglyceridemic rat |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| MCP-1 | monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 |
| MS | metabolic syndrome |
| NEFA | nonesterified fatty acids |
| OGTT | oral glucose tolerance test |
| OVX | ovariectomized HHTg rats |
| OVX+E2 | ovariectomized HHTg rats receiving 17β-estradiol |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| PMAT | perimetrial adipose tissue |
| PPARγ | peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ |
| Scd-1 | stearoyl-CoA desaturase-1 |
| SEM | standard error of the mean |
| Serpine1 | serpin family E member 1 |
| SHAM | sham-operated HHTg rats |
| qPCR | quantitative real-time PCR |
| TG | triglycerides |