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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 25.
Published in final edited form as: Metabolism. 2008 May;57(5):598–604. doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2007.12.001

Table 3.

Relationship between change in plasma lipids and baseline IL-6 tertiles during weight loss1

Factor Total Cholesterol LDL-C HDL-C Triglycerides (log10) Insulin (log10) Si (log10)

β(se) p β(se) p β(se) p β(se) p β(se) p β(se) p
Age (yrs) 0.7471
(0.3769)
0.0489 0.5038
(0.3451)
0.1459 0.1504
(0.1242)
0.2277 0.0026
(0.0019)
0.1699 −0.0036
(0.0018)
0.0436 0.0092
(0.0026)
0.0006
IAAT 0.0772
(0.0634)
0.2253 0.0676
(0.0549)
0.2201 −0.0378
(0.0228)
0.0984 0.0011
(0.0004)
0.0031 0.0011
(0.0003)
0.0034 −0.0024
(0.0005)
<0.0001
Baseline
IL6
(pg/mL)
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
≤1.16
1.17–1.7
0.0884
(8.0199)
0.9153 1.0305
(6.9239)
0.4528 −3.9776
(2.9889)
0.4141 0.04407
(0.0561)
0.1292 0.0311
(0.0593)
0.6789 −0.1850
(0.0902)
0.0647
>1.7 3.0309
(8.0648)
8.1871
(6.9768)
−2.0212
(2.9984)
−0.0723 0.0523
(0.0598)
−0.829
(0.0902)
Race
(White
vs.Black)
5.5457
(4.6050)
0.2299 3.7329
(4.2044)
0.3757 −3.9937
(1.5249)
0.0095 0.1444
(0.0230)
<0.0001 −0.0456
(0.0221)
0.0362 0.2201
(0.0326)
<0.0001
Visit −2.7972
(4.1007)
0.0511 −3.5108
(3.4383)
0.0280 4.2739
(1.5831)
0.0015 −0.0976
(0.0302)
<0.0001 −0.0961
(0.3236)
<0.0001 0.0674
(0.0491)
<0.0001
Baseline
IL6 (pg/mL)
*visit
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
≤ 1.16
1.17–1.7
−5.0884
(5.0458)
0.5689 −2.1198
(4.1542)
0.6353 −0.4114
(2.0151)
0.6996 −0.0365
(0.0403)
0.1321 0.0021
(0.0435)
0.6550 0.1051
(0.0662)
0.1919
>1.7 −3.8249
(4.9417)
−3.8658
(4.0595)
−1.6321
(1.9830)
0.0475
(0.0400)
−0.0340
(0.0435)
0.1032
(0.0655)
1

Abbreviations: IAAT, intraabdominal adipose tissue; IL-6, interleukin-6.