Table 1.

General characteristics of study subjects at baseline

Variables	Mean	SD
Age (years)	22	4.2
Height (cm)	154.8	5.9
Weight (kg)	59.8	13.6
BMI (kg/m2)	25	5.7
Glucose (mg/dl)	74.8	18.8
T. cholesterol (mg/dl)	149.4	28.6
Triacylglycerol (mg/dl)	100.6	52.5
HDL-cholesterol (mg/dl)	48	10.4
LDL-cholesterol (mg/dl)	71.1	34.7
VLDL-cholesterol (mg/dl)	17.6	11.8
T3 (pg/ml)	3	0.4
T4 (ng/dl)	1.6	2.1
TSH (µIU/ml)	2.4	1.5
FSH (IU/L)	9.5	20.1
LH (IU/L)	12.3	10.6
Prolactin (ng/ml)	14.8	14.7
Testosterone (ng/dl)	44.7	30.5

SD standard deviation