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Published in final edited form as: J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2012;25(0):33–40. doi: 10.1515/jpem-2011-0450

Table 3.

Change in markers of carbohydrate and lipid metabolism.

	Diet/exercise		Diet/exercise/metformin
	6 months–0 month	p-Value	6 months–0 month	p-Value
Insulin, pmol/L^a	67±20	0.002	2±19	0.91
HOMA-IR	1.6±0.8	0.06	0.34±0.76	0.66
Adiponectin, mg/L	1.9±0.9	0.04	2.5±0.8	0.004
TC, mmol/L	−0.20±0.11	0.1	0.03±0.10	0.82
LDL-C, mmol/L	−0.14±0.09	0.14	−0.07±0.09	0.41
HDL-C, mmol/L	0.03±0.04	0.47	0.09±0.03	0.008
Triglycerides, mmol/L	−0.002±0.09	0.15	−0.03±0.09	0.72
FFA, mmol/L	−0.04±0.05	0.38	−0.01±0.4	0.88

Data are LS mean±SE.

p=0.02 between groups. To convert insulin to μIU/mL, divide by 6.945; low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), and total cholesterol (TC) to mg/dL, divide by 0.0259; triglycerides to mg/dL, divide by 0.0113.