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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 12.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Commun. 2013;4:1528. doi: 10.1038/ncomms2537

Table 2.

Anthropometric and clinical data of patients (n =20) before and after bariatric intervention.

Before After P-value
BMI (kg m−2) 46.2 (41.8–51.2) 36.5 (32.8–40.6) 5.1 × 10−8*
HOMA-IR 5.0 (3.6–6.9) 1.4 (1.0–1.9) 8.4 ×10−8*
Glucose (mmol l−1) 5.9 (5.2–6.6) 5.0 (4.6–5.3) 6.0 × 10−5*
Insulin (μU ml−1) 19.1 (14.8–24.7) 6.4 (4.9–8.4) 3.4 × 10−7*
HbA1c (%) 6.3 (5.9–6.8) 5.6 (5.2–6.0) 0.009
HDL-C (mg dl−1) 34 (28–40) 39 (32–47) 0.013
LDL-C (mg dl−1) 131 (111–154) 95 (78–115) 0.0002*
TG (mg dl−1) 153 (109–214) 105 (84–131) 0.010
CRP (μg ml−1) 7.0 (4.3–11.5) 3.6 (1.8–7.1) 0.013

Abbreviations: CRP, C-reactive protein; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; HDL-C, plasma high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C, plasma low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; TG, total plasma triglycerides.

Means (95% confidence intervals) and P-values (paired t-test of log-transformed values).

*

Significant after adjustment for multiple testing

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