Table 1.

Clinical characteristics. Values are mean ± SD. Analyzed with unpaired t test. Baseline characteristics have previously been published [1, 5]

	Baseline			5-year follow-up
	Non-omentectomy	Omentectomy	P value	Non-omentectomy	Omentectomy	P value
N	41	40		23	26
Age (years)	41 ± 9	43 ± 9	0.42	48 ± 10	49 ± 9	0.72
Weight (kg)	119 ± 16	121 ± 15	0.52	85 ± 16	85 ± 19	0.94
BMI (kg/m2)	43.1 ± 5.4	44.3 ± 4.7	0.27	30.7 ± 5.2	31.4 ± 6.0	0.67
Waist to hip ratio	1.00 ± 0.07	1.00 ± 0.06	0.64	0.93 ± 0.07	0.92 ± 0.08	0.85
Total body fat %	53 ± 4	54 ± 3	0.41	43 ± 7	43 ± 8	0.93
Estimated visceral adipose tissue (kg)	2.39 ± 0.87	2.35 ± 0.78	0.84	0.90 ± 0.55	0.91 ± 0.66	0.98
Estimated subcutaneous adipose tissue (kg)	3.93 ± 1.00	3.89 ± 1.39	0.90	2.07 ± 1.07	2.35 ± 1.34	0.41
Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)	133 ± 17	137 ± 17	0.23	125 ± 14	134 ± 22	0.09
Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)	84 ± 9	85 ± 8	0.67	76 ± 9	82 ± 10	0.03
P-glucose (mmol/L)	5.5 ± 1.1	5.6 ± 1.3	0.77	5.0 ± 0.7	5.0 ± 0.6	0.82
P-insulin (mU/l)	14.7 ± 7.5	18.2 ± 9.4	0.07	5.2 ± 2.4	6.2 ± 2.8	0.15
P-cholesterol (mmol/l)	4.8 ± 0.9	4.9 ± 0.9	0.62	4.2 ± 0.9	4.3 ± 0.8	0.73
P-HDL cholesterol (mmol/l)	1.1 ± 0.2	1.2 ± 0.3	0.55	1.6 ± 0.4	1.6 ± 0.5	0.57
P-triglycerides (mmol/l)	1.5 ± 0.7	1.5 ± 0.7	0.93	1.0 ± 0.6	0.9 ± 0.3	0.65
P-NEFA (mmol/l)	0.75 ± 0.24	0.81 ± 0.17	0.22	0.6 ± 0.3	0.7 ± 0.3	0.52
P-apolipoprotein B (g/l)	0.91 ± 0.23	0.97 ± 0.25	0.28	0.82 ± 0.22	0.83 ± 0.22	0.83
P-apolipoprotein A1 (g/l)	1.22 ± 0.20	1.23 ± 0.22	0.85	1.56 ± 0.33	1.55 ± 0.37	0.89
P-alanine aminotransferase (U/L)	34.2 ± 17.6	34.6 ± 16.5	0.91	19.7 ± 7.2	18.2 ± 6.8	0.46
P-aspartate aminotransferase (U/L)	28.9 ± 12.6	31.0 ± 11.9	0.45	22.7 ± 4.5	23.1 ± 8.1	0.81