FIG. 5.

Comparison between the whole and the euthyroid subsample. Top: Estimated mean levels for LDL, HDL, total cholesterol, total triglyceride, leptin, and vaspin with 95% confidence intervals by serum 3,5-diiodothyronine concentrations calculated by ANOVA adjusted for age and sex. p_whole and p_eut, p-values from ANOVA about an overall difference between groups in the whole and euthyroid sample, respectively. Significant differences between groups were marked for comparison with the ^†lowest and ^‡intermediate (p<0.05). Bottom: Predicted mean level of the same parameters conditioned on 3,5-diiodothyronine serum concentrations >0.2 nM for a 50-year-old man from linear regression analysis. Corresponding p-values are listed in Table 2. HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein.