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Published in final edited form as: Cancer Lett. 2012 Oct 16;328(2):345–352. doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2012.10.010

Table II.

Obesity biomarker levels across categories of BMI, waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio (WHR), and height.

			Leptin (ng/ml)			C-peptide(ng/ml)			Adiponectin (ug/ml)			Estradiol (ng/ml)
			Median	25^th	75th	Median	25^th	75th	Median	25^th	75th	Median	25^th	75th

BMI	less than 30		6.92	4.17	10.84	2.03	1.43	3.00	21.1	15.78	26.84	30.09	24.05	39.87
	30 or more		18.50	10.50	25.59	2.93	2.05	3.89	18.88	14.34	22.63	35.12	26.84	46.17
		p		<0.001			<0.001			<0.001			<0.001
WC (cm)	less than 104.1		5.91	3.64	8.84	1.76	1.23	2.68	21.78	15.74	27.06	29.44	24.11	39.42
	104.1 or more		14.41	8.28	25.38	2.83	1.89	3.77	19.23	14.78	23.06	33.89	25.76	42.68
		p		<0.001			<0.001			0.008			0.017
WHR	less than 1.01		7.30	4.06	11.34	1.86	1.32	2.88	20.82	15.74	26.15	31.85	24.60	40.23
	1.01 or more		12.42	6.99	23.27	2.68	1.77	3.82	19.60	14.63	23.51	33.10	25.44	42.04
		p		<0.001			<0.001			0.065			0.205
Height (cm)	less than 175.3		8.88	5.70	17.83	2.35	1.60	3.45	20.16	15.09	25.14	30.21	23.88	41.02
	175.3 or more		8.93	5.06	17.43	2.23	1.49	3.25	19.71	15.46	25.02	33.07	25.51	41.43
		p		0.904			0.183			0.730			0.156

P: wilcoxon rank sums test