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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 7.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2015 Aug 28;40(2):275–280. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2015.174

Table 3.

Percent change from baseline at 3 and 12 months in clinical characteristics and levels of adipokines and biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress from cohort 2 (N = 13)

3 months
Mean % change (95%CI)
12 months
Mean % change (95%CI)
Baseline vs. 3 months p-value Baseline vs. 12 months p-value
Weight (kg) −21.4%
(−19.4 to −23.6%)
−35.5%
(−29.9 to −41.0%)
p<0.001 p<0.001
BMI (kg/m2) −21.2%
(−19.2 to −23.5%)
−35.6%
(−30.0 to −41.0%)
p<0.001 p<0.001
Glucose (mg/dL) −11.5%
(−5.9 to −17.0%)
−10.3%
(−5.5 to 15.3%)
p=0.002 p=0.001
Insulin (μU/mL) −57.9%
(−50.4 to −66.3%)
−62.5%
(−55.6 to 68.8%)
p=0.004 p=0.001
HOMA-IR −62.3%
(−54.4 to −71.1%)
−66.6%
(−60.4 to −71.9%)
p=0.002 p<0.001
IL-6 (pg/mL) −54.6%
(−118.7 to 9.5%)
−74.4%
(−115.7 to −33.2%)
p<0.05 p<0.05
TNF-α (pg/mL) 40.1%
(−59.0 to 139.1%)
−4.2%
(−65.6 to 57.2%)
p=0.321 p=0.303
Leptin (ng/mL) −41.7%
(−62.7 to 20.7%)
−61.9%
(−77.7 to 46.2%)
p<0.01 p<0.001
MCP-1 (pg/mL) 26.3%
(−34.6 to 87.1%)
−14.5%
(−41.3 to 12.3%)
p=0.591 p=0.075
Resistin ng/mL) −10.4%
(−27.9 to 7.1%)
−6.3%
(−24.9 to 12.3%)
p=0.170 p=0.257
OxLDL (U/L) −5.4%
(−25.8 to 15.0%)
−16.5%
(−32.9 to 0.1%)
p=0.366 p=0.188
Adiponectin (μg/mL) 116.6%
(59.2 to 174.1%)
194.2%
(110.5 to 277.9%)
p<0.01 p<0.001

Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation. IL-6 = interleukin-6; TNF-α = tumor necrosis factor-alpha; MCP-1 = monocyte chemo-attractant protein-1; OxLDL = oxidized LDL cholesterol