Table 3.

Concentration of apolipoproteins (μg/dL) in the serum of patients with metabolic syndrome and patients without it (Me [Q1; Q3]).

	Patients without MetS N = 27	Patients with MetS N = 26	p-value
ApoA1, μg/dL	55.23 [41; 73.75]	49.41 [37.12; 58.82]	0.266
ApoA2, μg/dL	37.9 [22.96; 60.51]	63.67 [32.6; 75.81]	0.017*
ApoC2, μg/dL	12.56 [7.22; 20.95]	32.4 [19.955; 49.06]	<0.001*
ApoC3, μg/dL	24.035 [10.585; 44.34]	59.86 [39.205; 95.13]	<0.001*
ApoE, μg/dL	4.36 [2.41; 5.33]	5.03 [4.05; 6.03]	0.075

Abbreviations: MetS – metabolic syndrome; ApoA1, ApoA2, ApoC2, ApoC3, ApoE – apolipoproteins A1, A2, C2, C3, E.Comparisons between groups were performed using Mann-Whitney U-test. * – p < 0.05 – statistically significant difference (highlighted in bold).