Table 5.

Correlations of serum CoQ₁₀ levels with clinical and biochemical variables of the control and the obese subjects

	Control					Obese
	BMI	Waist circumference	Waist-to-hip ratio	Age	HOMA-IR	BMI	Waist circumference	Waist-to-hip ratio	Age	HOMA-IR
CoQ10	0.110	–0.065	–0.050	–0.151	0.065	0.140	0.085	0.101	0.240*	–0.016
CoQ10/total cholesterol	–0.026	–0.217	–0.185	–0.228*	0.054	0.142	0.067	0.095	0.126	–0.063
CoQ10/LDL	–0.147	–0.337**	–0.285*	–0.295**	0.057	0.168	0.083	0.084	0.111	–0.050
CoQ10/triglyceride	–0.155	–0.387**	–0.285*	–0.211	–0.060	–0.097	–0.089	–0.022	0.111	–0.055
CoQ10/total cholesterol + triglyceride	–0.059	–0.281*	–0.250*	–0.233*	0.017	0.064	0.003	0.049	0.108	–0.047

BMI, body mass index. LDL-cholesterol, low density lipoprotein-cholesterol. HOMA-IR, homeostasis model assesment. CoQ₁₀, coenzyme Q₁₀. *p<0.05, **p<0.01.