Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of the patients from whom fasting plasma and adipose tissue samples were obtained

	AT (n = 10)	Plasma (n = 10)
Gender (male/female)	1/9	5/5
Age (years)	47 ± 3.0	50 ± 3.0
Body mass index (kg/m2)	41.4 ± 1.70	39.8 ± 1.32
Triacylglycerols (mmol/l)	1.64 ± 0.42	1.49 ± 0.22
Total cholesterol (mmol/l)	5.4 ± 0.42	3.9 ± 0.31
HDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)	1.1 ± 0.08	1.0 ± 0.09
LDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)	3.6 ± 0.39	2.3 ± 0.28
Glucose (mmol/l)	6.4 ± 0.35	6.2 ± 0.34
Insulin (mU/l)	23.9 ± 9.03	11.5 ± 1.64

Mean ± SEM

AT adipose tissue, HDL high-density lipoprotein, LDL low-density lipoprotein