Table 3.

Mean (± SD) serum analytes, BMI and percentage of males, according to levels of serum analytes.

	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p value
Adiponectin (μg/mL)	< 3.1		<5.4		<13.2
N=	18		20		18
%Male	72		58		28		0.024*
Leptin (ng/mL)	<5.4		<10.6		<95.2
N=	18		19		19
IL-6	2.0	0.9	2.6	1.8	3.6	2.1	0.02‡
%Male	83		47		28		0.003*
BMI	23.7	3.5	25.6	3.5	32.7	8.9	0.0001‡
IL-6 (pg/mL)	<1.7		<2.7		<9.0
N=	18		20		18
Leptin	7.5	6.0	8	5.5	20.2	20.7	0.003‡
%Male	67		67		26		0.017*
BMI	<24.4		<27.9		<63.1
N=	20		18		18
Leptin	6	4.4	8.3		21.9	20.4	0.0005‡

Note: All serum, clinical and microbial parameters were included in the analysis. Due to the high number of variables evaluated, only those that presented differences with associated p values<0.05 were included in the table.

^*Chi-square analysis

^‡Kruskall-Wallis analysis.