. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 18.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Apr 9;17(9):1671–1677. doi: 10.1038/oby.2009.102

Table 1.

Demographics of study cohorts

	Post-GB	Overweight	Morbid obese
Age (year)	48 ± 9	48 ± 8	41 ± 16
Gender (male/female)	2/7	6/4	0/5
Preoperative BMI (kg/m²)	50.2 ± 11.4	NA	NA
BMI (kg/m²)	29.9 ± 4.5	31.5 ± 4.0	52.0 ± 6.4^††,^‡‡
Waist (cm)	95 ± 17	102 ± 17	143 ± 19^††,^‡‡
HbA1c (%)	5.2 ± 0.5	5.6 ± 0.3	5.5 ± 0.4
Chol (mg/dl)	176 ± 27	188 ± 27	189 ± 36
TG (mg/dl)	51 ± 12	132 ± 110^*	127 ± 71^††
HDL (mg/dl)	71 ± 25	42 ± 11^**	39 ± 8^†
SBP (mm Hg)	124 ± 16	120 ± 6	126 ± 13
DBP (mm Hg)	73 ± 7	73 ± 7	73 ± 8
Fasting glucose (mg/dl)	84 ± 7	94 ± 6^**	96 ± 9^†
2-h Glucose (mg/dl)	70 ± 9	91 ± 13^**	99 ± 13^††
Fasting insulin (µU/ml)	7.9 ± 10.2	15.2 ± 10.3	28.1 ± 5.8^††,^‡
Leptin (ng/ml)	12.9 ± 5.1	17.6 ± 10.5	70.8 ± 19.6^††,^‡‡
Adiponectin (µg/dl)	26.4 ± 10.3	13.6 ± 8.3^**	8.0 ± 2.8^††

Data are presented as mean ± s.d.

chol, cholesterol; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; GB, gastric bypass; HbA1c, hemoglobin A1c; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; SBP, systolic blood pressure; TG, triglyceride.

P < 0.05.

^**

P < 0.01 for comparison of GB vs. overweight.

^†

P < 0.05.

^††

P < 0.01 for comparison of post-GB vs. morbid obesity.

^‡

P < 0.05.

^‡‡

P < 0.01 for comparison of overweight vs. morbid obesity.