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Published in final edited form as: Endocrine. 2012 Jul 1;42(3):726–735. doi: 10.1007/s12020-012-9728-6

Table 3A.

Spearman rank correlations of baseline (0 month) FFA, CRP and IL-6 levels and HOMA-IR vs. baseline (0 month) body composition parameters, estradiol, testosterone, and each other for the combined groups.

		Weight, kg	BMI, kg/m²	Estradiol, pg/ml	Testosterone, ng/dl	HOMA-IR, mM-μU/ml	IL-6, pg/ml	CRP, mg/l
FFA, mmol/l	r	0.781	0.762	−0.254	0.033	0.497	0.601	0.364
FFA, mmol/l	P	0.001^*	0.002^*	0.295	0.892	0.040^*	0.016^*	0.135
CRP, mg/l	r	0.354	0.333	0.378	0.124	0.020	0.556	---------
CRP, mg/l	P	0.144	0.169	0.120	0.609	0.936	0.026^*	---------
IL-6, pg/ml	r	0.767	0.740	0.057	0.202	0.392	---------	---------
IL-6, pg/ml	P	0.002^*	0.003^*	0.822	0.418	0.117	---------	---------
HOMA-IR, mM-μU/ml	P	0.628	0.579	0.040	0.324	-------------	---------	---------
HOMA-IR, mM-μU/ml	P	0.010^*	0.017^*	0.868	0.181	-------------	---------	---------