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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2014 Feb 18;22(6):1464–1469. doi: 10.1002/oby.20713

TABLE 2.

Whole Cycle, Transverse-Summed Urine Hormone Metabolites

Parameter Obese-AI (O-AI)
N=12
Normal weight-AI (N-AI)
N=10
Normal weight Unstimulated (N-U)
N=14
P values
overall O-AI vs. N-AI N-AI vs. N-U O-AI vs. N-U
BMI, kg/m2 37.1±7 21.2±1.3 21.5±1.6 -- <0.01 NS <0.01
Age, years 30.5±4.3 30.9±1 31.7±4.6 0.76 -- -- --
Pdg, ug/mg Cr 54.1±33.0 88.7±64.6 157.4 ± 114.2 <0.01 0.61 0.14 0.01
E1c, ng/mg Cr 467.7±217.4 911.4±361.8 1463.2 ± 422.4 <0.01 0.02 <0.01 <0.01
LH mIU/mg Cr 242.3±144.3 335.2±165.7 164.0 ± 145.4 0.03 0.37 0.03 0.43
FSH, mIU/mg Cr 179.1±94.8 136.8±59.0 147.5 ± 52.6 0.35 0.23

Hormones shown are whole cycle transverse sums. Normal weight, unstimulated women are historical controls assessed previously in the same laboratory [3,7,8]