Table 4.

Correlations between homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance and plasma amino acid levels

	All		Men		Women
	r	P	r	P	r	P
Glycine	−0.120	0.248	−0.326	0.024	0.084	0.578
Alanine	0.439	<0.001	0.478	0.001	0.140	0.354
Serine	−0.231	0.025	−0.374	0.009	0.114	0.451
Threonine	−0.113	0.276	−0.222	0.129	−0.016	0.918
Valine	0.384	<0.001	0.245	0.094	0.354	0.016
Isoleucine	0.495	<0.001	0.385	0.007	0.520	<0.001
Leucine	0.430	<0.001	0.323	0.025	0.383	0.009
Lysine	0.153	0.141	−0.017	0.908	−0.040	0.792
Arginine	0.192	0.063	0.265	0.068	0.079	0.600
Histidine	0.294	0.004	0.152	0.301	0.209	0.164
Tyrosine	0.462	<0.001	0.462	0.001	0.313	0.034
Phenylalanine	0.398	<0.001	0.292	0.044	0.304	0.040
Tryptophan	0.153	0.141	−0.021	0.886	0.132	0.383
Methionine	0.157	0.131	0.026	0.862	0.058	0.704
Cysteine	0.204	0.049	0.151	0.305	0.088	0.563
Proline	0.396	<0.001	0.312	0.031	0.249	0.095
Glutamine	0.075	0.474	−0.154	0.297	0.047	0.758
Glutamic acid	0.461	<0.001	0.448	0.001	0.195	0.195
Asparagine	−0.184	0.077	−0.229	0.117	−0.370	0.011
Aspartic acid	0.400	<0.001	0.383	0.011	0.303	0.087
Total AA	0.324	0.001	0.202	0.168	0.194	0.197
NEAA	0.266	0.010	0.162	0.271	0.128	0.396
EAA	0.336	0.001	0.176	0.230	0.254	0.089
BCAA	0.436	<0.001	0.319	0.027	0.410	0.005

BCAA, branched-chain amino acid

EAA, essential amino acid

NEAA, non-essential amino acid

Total AA, total amino acid.