Table 1.
Metabolic characteristics of the different ethnic groups
| Gender (%) | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subjects | n | Male | Female | Age, years | Weight, kg | Height, m | BMI, kg/m2 | Activity index | Fasting glucose, mg/dl* | Fasting insulin,*† microunits/ml | HOMA*† | ISI,*† 10–4 dl/min per microunit/ml |
| Eastern-Asian | 59 | 20 (33.9) | 39 (66.1) | 26.3 ± 6.8 | 59.6 ± 9.7 | 1.66 ± 0.08 | 21.4 ± 2.2 | 2.7 ± 0.1 | 90.4 (88.4, 92.4) | 7.9 (7.0, 8.9) | 1.74 (1.53, 1.97) | 4.41 (3.94, 4.94) |
| Asian-Indian | 49 | 31 (63.3) | 18 (36.7) | 28.7 ± 8.3 | 63.4 ± 9.3 | 1.68 ± 0.08 | 22.4 ± 2.3 | 2.1 ± 0.1 | 92.2 (90.1, 94.3)B2 | 12.1 (10.7, 13.8)A2,C2,B1,H2 | 2.75 (2.40, 3.15)A2,C2,B2,H2 | 3.02 (2.67, 3.41)A2,C2,B2,H2 |
| Caucasian | 292 | 124 (42.5) | 168 (57.5) | 26.0 ± 7.0 | 65.4 ± 9.6 | 1.71 ± 0.09 | 22.2 ± 2.1 | 2.3 ± 0.1 | 89.2 (88.3, 90.0) | 8.7 (8.3, .2) | 1.95 (1.84, 2.05) | 4.75 (4.53, 4.99) |
| Black | 48 | 14 (29.2) | 34 (70.8) | 23.8 ± 7.0 | 65.8 ± 8.7 | 1.70 ± 0.07 | 22.6 ± 1.8 | 2.3 ± 0.1 | 86.5 (84.2, 88.8) | 8.9 (7.7, 10.2) | 1.90 (1.64, 2.20) | 4.46 (3.91, 5.08) |
| Hispanic | 34 | 15 (44.1) | 19 (55.9) | 26.5 ± 6.4 | 65.7 ± 10.2 | 1.69 ± 0.09 | 22.9 ± 2.1 | 2.3 ± 0.2 | 88.6 (86.1, 91.1) | 7.5 (6.4, 8.7) | 1.65 (1.41, 1.94) | 5.21 (4.52, 6.00) |
Superscript letters and numbers: A2, significantly different from the Eastern-Asian group (Tukey's corrected P < 0.005); C2, significantly different from the Caucasian group (Tukey's corrected P < 0.005); B1, significantly different from the Black group (Tukey's corrected P < 0.05); B2, significantly different from the Black group (Tukey's corrected P < 0.005); H2, significantly different from the Hispanic group (Tukey's corrected P < 0.005).
*Data were adjusted for age and BMI.
†Data are presented as geometric means.