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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2007 Oct;15(10):2436–2444. doi: 10.1038/oby.2007.289

Table 2.

Plasma glucose, insulin, IL-6, and C-reactive protein levels while fasting and in response to the oral glucose challenge, and HOMA-IR in lean and obese women

	Fasting	2 hours post-glucose
Glucose (mg/dL)
Lean	85.3 ± 2.0	99.0 ± 11.8
Obese	82.9 ± 4.4	119.4 ± 5.5^*
Insulin (μU/mL)
Lean	8.5 ± 1.2	33.1 ± 8.8^*
Obese	14.0 ± 2.3	88.2 ± 24.2^*
HOMA-IR (mM) × fasting insulin (μU/mL)
Lean	1.8 ± 0.02
Obese	3.3 ± 0.05^†
Plasma IL-6 (pg/mL)
Lean	0.68 ± 0.06	0.72 ± 0.11
Obese	2.26 ± 0.61^†	2.99 ± 0.61^†
CRP (ng/mL)
Lean	219 ± 92	221 ± 99
Obese	7215 ± 941^†	6701 ± 1001^†

IL-6, interleukin-6; CRP, C-reactive protein; HOMA-IR, homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance. Values are mean ± standard error.

Two hours post-glucose significantly higher than fasting (p < 0.02).

^†

Significantly higher than the lean group (p < 0.05).