Table 2.

Hepatic markers and white blood cell (WBC) count

	Lean	Obese	p-value
ALT (U/L)	23.9 ± 1.2	42.3 ± 5.5	0.002**
AST (U/L)	29.3 ± 2.5	31.0 ± 2.4	0.647
Alkaline Phosphatase (mg/dL)	91.4 ± 6.1	92.8 ± 4.7	0.855
Total Bilirubin (U/L)	0.5 ± 0.1	0.4 ± 0.0	0.416
Total Protein (gm/dL)	7.8 ± 0.5	7.5 ± 0.4	0.010**
Albumin (mg/dL)	4.7 ± 0.3	4.3 ± 0.3	0.000**
WBC (103/mL)	5.5 ± 0.8	6.8 ± 1.8	0.000**

**denotes a p-value of ≤0.010.

Alanine aminotrasferase (ALT); aspartate aminotransferase (AST); white blood cell (WBC).