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Published in final edited form as: Diabetes. 2005 Mar;54(3):603–608. doi: 10.2337/diabetes.54.3.603

TABLE 3.

Rates of glucose oxidation, lipid oxidation, and RQ in the basal state and during the euglycemic-hyperinsulinemic clamp in control subjects and patients with type 2 diabetes before and after weight loss

	Control	P value, control vs. type 2 diabetes before weight loss	Type 2 diabetes before weight loss	Type 2 diabetes after weight loss	P value, type 2 diabetes before vs. after weight loss
n	10		8	8
Basal glucose oxidation (mg · kg LBM⁻¹ · min⁻¹)	1.01 ± 0.13	NS	1.06 ± 0.26	0.85 ± 0.13	NS
Basal lipid oxidation (mg · kg LBM⁻¹ · min⁻¹)	4.60 ± 0.36	NS	4.03 ± 0.66	4.63 ± 0.49	NS
Basal RQ	0.81 ± 0.01	NS	0.82 ± 0.02	0.80 ± 0.01	NS
Clamp glucose oxidation (mg · kg LBM⁻¹ · min⁻¹)	3.05 ± 0.52	0.014	3.85 ± 0.55	3.06 ± 0.68	NS
Clamp lipid oxidation (mg · kg LBM⁻¹ · min⁻¹)	0.89 ± 0.21	<0.00001	1.40 ± 0.17	1.57 ± 0.21	NS
Clamp RQ	0.93 ± 0.01	0.018	0.85 ± 0.02	0.87 ± 0.02	NS

Data are means ± SE. LBM, lean body mass; RQ, respiratory quotient.