Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of subjects

	BMI20–25	BMI<25 vs. BMI25–30	BMI25–30	BMI25–30 vs. BMI>30	BMI>30	BMI<25 vs. BMI>30
Sample	50	NS	30	NS	40	NS
Male/female	27/23	NS	13/17	NS	20/20	NS
Age	32.42 ± 11.8	NS	35.96 ± 13.18	NS	37.11 ± 14.2	NS
Weight (kg)	59.32 ± 13.34	<0.001	72.79 ± 9.85	<0.001	97.16 ± 13.2	<0.001
BMI (kg/m2)	22.61 ± 1.48	<0.001	27.33 ± 1.46	<0.001	37.02 ± 5.03	<0.001
WC (cm)	77.1 ± 6.9 (F)/84.2 ± 6.5 (M)	0.015/<0.001	84.1 ± 7.8/95.3 ± 7.9	<0.001/0.01	98.6 ± 7.1/103.2 ± 9.5	<0.001/<0.001
Total cholesterol (mmol/L)	4.60 ± 1.13	0.007	5.47 ± 1.01	0.88	5.61 ± 1.43	<0.001
LDL-C (mmol/L)	3.33 ± 0.92	0.09	3.75 ± 0.94	0.21	3.92 ± 1.28	0.03
HDL-C (mmol/L)	1.42 ± 0.23	0.13	1.3 ± 0.25	0.12	1.21 ± 0.18	<0.001
TG (mmol/L)	0.92 ± 0.51	0.002	1.27 ± 0.37	0.65	1.36 ± 0.34	<0.001
AST (μkat/L)	0.44 ± 0.12	0.24	0.37 ± 0.16	0.02	0.47 ± 0.19	0.24
ALT (μkat/L)	0.40 ± 0.19	0.19	0.44 ± 0.29	0.1	0.53 ± 0.33	0.08
ALP (μkat/L)	1.12 ± 0.23	0.29	1.11 ± 0.19	0.009	1.28 ± 0.34	0.01
AMS(μkat/L)	0.97 ± 0.37	0.03	0.64 ± 0.32	0.05	0.96 ± 0.83	0.23
sTK (mmHg)	110.27 ± 19.33	<0.001	129.11 ± 15.98	0.19	135.11 ± 18.23	<0.001
dTK (mmHg)	69.73 ± 12.21	<0.001	82.11 ± 14.72	0.16	83.98 ± 14.13	<0.001

NS not significant