Table 1.

Characteristics of 114 examined women

Characteristic	Means±SD
Age, years	43 ± 11
BMI, kg/m2	34 ± 9
FPG, mmol/l	5.17 ± 0.65
FSI, pmol/l	63 ± 50
HOMA-IR	0.96 ± 2.12
Fasting plasma total cholesterol, mmol/l	4.9 ± 0.9
Fasting plasma HDL-cholesterol, mmol/l	1.4 ± 0.4
Fasting plasma triacylglycerols, mmol/l	1.3 ± 0.8
Fat cell volume, pl	731 ± 266
WAT morphologya, plb	17 ± 165
Basal lipolysisc, μmol glycerol (2 h)−1 (107 adipocytes)−1	4.26 ± 2.62
Insulin-stimulated lipogenesisd, nmol of glucose (2 h)−1 (107 adipocytes)−1	4.71 ± 6.22

^aData were missing from 11 women

^bDefined in the ‘WAT experiments’ section of the Methods

^cData were missing from 22 women

^dData were missing from five women