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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: Anal Biochem. 2014 Apr 1;455:35–40. doi: 10.1016/j.ab.2014.03.016

Table 3.

Clinical and laboratory characteristics of healthy controls

Characteristic All participants
(n=349)
Age-yr 54±16
Male sex-% 33
Median body-mass index (interquartile range) 25 (23–29)
Hypertension-% 5
Current or former smoker-% 5
Median cholesterol (interquartile range)-mg/dl
    Low-density lipoprotein
    High-density lipoprotein
117 (95–142)
53 (45–64)
Median triglycerides (interquartile range)-mg/dl 102 (73–154)
Median lipoprotein (interquartile range)-mg/dl
    B
    A1
    A2
82 (67–98)
150 (132–171)
38 (34–43)
Median TMAO (interquartile range)-μM 3.4 (2.3–5.8)

All subjects gave written informed consent and the Institutional Review Board of the Cleveland Clinic approved all study protocols. Fasting blood lipid profiles were measured on the Abbott ARCHITECT platform (Abbott Diagnostics, Abbot Park, IL).