Table 1.

Baseline values of clinical parameters and long-chain base levels for each group (significant differences in bold)

Parameters		Female		Male		-Fold difference	−log(p)
		Mean	S.D.	Mean	S.D.
n		329		329
Age		59.77	9.07	58.31	10.52	1.02	1.24
BMI		28.61	5.03	27.82	4.28	1.03	1.50
Waist/hip ratio		0.86	0.07	0.94	0.06	0.91	49.39
Cholesterol (total)		5.94	1.09	5.63	0.94	1.06	4.08
HDL		1.66	0.40	1.38	0.31	1.20	21.24
LDL		3.59	0.95	3.51	0.82	1.02	0.66
Trig		1.51	0.70	1.63	0.84	0.93	1.37
Glu		6.02	1.67	6.14	1.79	0.98	0.43
C16SO	d16:1	19.63	5.73	16.58	5.21	1.18	11.58
C16SA	d16:0	0.51	0.20	0.44	0.18	1.14	4.65
C17SO	d17:1	9.52	2.63	7.91	2.28	1.20	15.45
C18PhytoSO	t18:0	0.15	0.05	0.14	0.04	1.02	0.47
C18SO	d18:1	97.23	19.15	88.32	16.54	1.10	9.45
C18SA	d18:0	3.51	1.08	3.12	1.00	1.12	5.48
C18SAdienine	d18:2	35.05	7.80	28.01	6.33	1.25	32.26
C19SO	d19:1	2.45	0.96	2.16	0.91	1.14	4.12
C20SO	d20:1	0.20	0.06	0.19	0.05	1.03	0.57
C20SA	d20:0	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.01	1.02	0.28
1-DeoxySO	m18:1	0.15	0.08	0.17	0.09	0.85	4.10
1-DeoxySA	m18:0	0.08	0.04	0.09	0.04	0.95	0.85