Table 4.

Relative amounts of steroid and associated ratios in adipose tissue.

	Women
Steroids (median, [Q1-Q3])	All (n = 23)	Controls (n = 6)	Cases (n = 17)	*P-value
Cortisone (pmol/kg)	5501 (1829–16 748)	326 (298–1829)	7817 (2811–16 748)	.0055
Cortisol (pmol/kg)	22 671 (16 040–33 719)	22 142 (16 040–46 171)	22 671 (18 473–32 688)	.5697#
Estrone (pmol/kg)	3744 (2847–9899)	7855 (3062–18 998)	3744 (2514–7415)	.1611
Estradiol (pmol/kg)	2320 (1537–4160)	2747 (1796–2937)	2306 (1537–4160)	.4211
Ratio cortisol:cortisone	4.13 (2.47–15.09)	42.28 (15.09–56.09)	3.35 (2.26–5.54)	<.0001
Ratio estradiol:estrone	0.46 (0.32–0.66)	0.54 (0.15–0.65)	0.44 (0.33–0.63)	.6059

*Student t-test P-values calculated with log-transformed variables. ^#Satterthwaite adjusted P-value