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. 2016 Jan 6;12:27. doi: 10.1007/s11306-015-0930-4

Table 2.

Metabolites with a significant unadjusted interaction with medication group on relative HbA1c change in the entire study population (n = 264)

Metformin Sulphonylurea (SU) Metformin and SU
Coefficient p value Coefficient p value Coefficient p value
1,5 anhydroglucitol (HMDB 02712, CAS 154-58-5) 14.2 0.001 10.8 0.043 29.8 <0.0001
2-hydroxybutanoic acid (HMDB 00008, CAS 5094-24-6) −60.7 0.011 14.6 0.716 −68.5 0.013
2-hydroxypiperidine (Pubchem 24847875, CAS 5382-16-1) 781.4 0.016 333.5 0.511 1164.2 0.002
3-hydroxybutanoic acid (HMDB 00357, CAS 300-85-6) −18.2 0.029 −4.6 0.850 −54.3 0.015
4-oxoproline (KEGG C01877, CAS 4347-18-6) 517.9 0.002 409.5 0.096 682.0 0.001
Glucose (HMDB 00122, CAS 50-99-7) −1.7 0.001 −1.3 0.043 −1.8 0.0003
Glutamic acid internal amidea (HMDB 00267, CAS 98-79-3) 26.6 <0.0001 9.8 0.296 15.6 0.026
Myo-inositol (HMDB 00211, CAS 87-89-8) 51.3 0.050 6.7 0.818 106.0 0.038
Pseudo uridine (HMDB 00767, CAS 1445-07-4) 109.3 0.012 35.1 0.519 140.1 0.007
LCB 18:1-17:0 SM 1079.0 0.044 409.7 0.586 1830.9 0.003
l-Methionine (HMDB 00696, CAS 63-68-3) 191.1 0.018 101.8 0.363 25.1 0.768
l-Phenylalanine (HMDB 00159, CAS 63-91-2) 24.3 0.034 17.0 0.317 2.5 0.843
4-Hydroxyglutamate semialdehyde (HMDB 06556) 654.1 0.034 527.3 0.192 457.6 0.162
LCB18:0-16:0 SM (HMDB 10168) 30.2 0.334 33.3 0.500 93.5 0.010
LCB18:1-18:0 SM (HMDB 01348, CAS 58909-84-5) −0.9 0.763 4.5 0.236 6.6 0.038
Uric acid (HMDB 00289, CAS 69-93-2) 0.7 0.163 0.4 0.526 1.3 0.020

This beta represents the additional contribution of each metabolite in the specific medication group compared with the no medication group

aFormed during derivatisation step, measure for glutamate