Table 3. Spearman’s correlation of plasma metabolites with altered biochemical and anthropometrical parameters of the cohorts included in the study.

		Waist	HOMA-IR	Insulin	BMI	HDL
Valine	rho	0.311	0.317	0.279	0.284	0.0541
	p	0.108	0.115	0.168	0.136	0.789
N-acetyl groups of plasma proteins	rho	0.385	0.442	0.478	0.399	-0.333
	p	0.0429	0.0248	0.0135	0.0331	0.0896
Phospholipids	rho	-0.672	-0.581	-0.667	-0.589	0.602
	p	9.12e-05	0.00223	0.000201	0.000973	0.000893