Table 1.

Demographic information of the enrolled subjects.

	Control group (n = 22)§	Obesity group (n = 11)§
Age (years)	54.82 ± 12.74	52.27 ± 13.39
Gender (male, %)	8 (36.4%)	3 (27.3%)
Waistline (cm)	85.56 ± 9.24	111.38 ± 13.61*
Hipline (cm)	95.47 ± 4.30	111.19 ± 9.79*
Height (cm)	162.59 ± 6.46	162.36 ± 6.83
Weight (kg)	63.14 ± 7.61	84.73 ± 8.52*
BMI (kg/m2)	23.87 ± 2.24	32.21 ± 3.54*
TC (mmol/L)	4.84 ± 1.05	4.59 ± 0.58
TG (mmol/L)	1.39 ± 1.14	1.69 ± 1.03
HDL-C (mmol/L)	1.16 ± 0.31	1.32 ± 0.70
LDL-C (mmol/L)	3.31 ± 1.01	2.84 ± 0.80
FBG (mmol/L)	5.31 (4.27–6.78)	5.11 (4.75∼10.65)#

^§Information is separately presented as n (%) for dichotomous data, median (min∼max) for non-normal data, and mean ± sd for normal data.

*A significant difference between obesity and control group exists if p-value < 0.01 (two tailed Student’s t test).

^#A significant difference between obesity and control group exists if p-value < 0.01 (two tailed Kolmogorov-Smirnov test).