Table 1.

Clinical characteristics in three groups according to AIP levels

	low	intermediate	high	P
Male (%)	34.0	63.4	69.9	0.000
Age	42.6 ± 11.8	42.2 ± 11.2	41.7 ± 11.5	0.718
BMI	30.48 ± 2.16	30.63 ± 2.03	30.97 ± 2.21	0.058
WC	96.45 ± 8.75	99.22 ± 10.76	100.26 ± 8.68	0.000
AIP	−0.11 ± 0.15	0.16 ± 0.03	0.48 ± 0.28	0.000
TC	5.04 ± 0.93	5.35 ± 1.04	5.45 ± 1.12	0.000
LDL	2.78 ± 0.70	3.13 ± 0.74	3.07 ± 0.74	0.000
HDL	1.25 ± 0.22	1.09 ± 0.19	0.92 ± 0.21	0.000
TG	1.00 ± 0.28	1.57 ± 0.27	3.16 ± 2.20	0.000
ALT	19.82 ± 11.43	38.17 ± 95.01	29.38 ± 39.73	0.000
AST	24.58 ± 6.96	41.87 ± 122.09	28.82 ± 8.72	0.019
GGT	28.94 ± 21.33	40.24 ± 29.03	63.64 ± 71.70	0.000
FPG	5.76 ± 1.33	5.89 ± 1.59	6.07 ± 1.72	0.110