Table 3.
Trace element content in diets (µg/g).
| Element | PCOS-IR n = 28 |
PCOS-NIR n = 19 |
Control Group (CG) n = 16 |
p-Value * PCOS-IR vs. PCOS-NIR |
p-Value * PCOS-IR vs. CG |
p-Value * PCOS-NIR vs. CG |
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| Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | ||||
| (Range) | (Range) | (Range) | |||||||
| Zn | 9.40 | 2.32 | 8.20 | 1.95 | 8.96 | 2.28 | 0.381 | 0.871 | 0.711 |
| (5.30–14.79) | (6.18–12.62) | (5.20–12.60) | |||||||
| Fe | 12.03 | 4.86 | 11.12 | 4.20 | 11.22 | 4.04 | 0.869 | 0.888 | 0.746 |
| (6.47–23.30) | (7.76–21.04) | (5.13–16.07) | |||||||
| Cu | 1.19 | 0.49 | 1.07 | 0.35 | 1.08 | 0.41 | 0.791 | 0.788 | 0.843 |
| (0.55–2.43) | (0.70–1.91) | (0.48–1.80) | |||||||
| Mg | 282.21 | 88.54 | 328.13 | 85.60 | 299.01 | 55.85 | 0.336 | 0.852 | 0.682 |
| (176.77–583.99) | (204.38–472.19) | (201.50–385.15) | |||||||
| Na | 3024.99 | 844.38 | 2542.22 | 770.89 | 2867.27 | 468.18 | 0.245 | 0.847 | 0.572 |
| (2066.85–5073.79) | (1329.71–3795.77) | (2001.1–3598.2) | |||||||
| K | 3704.23 | 2124.93 | 3157.57 | 1165.88 | 3551.73 | 379.06 | 0.659 | 0.966 | 0.830 |
| (1559.0–8430.1) | (1967.2–5362.3) | (3006.2–4012.5) | |||||||
PCOS-NIR—PCOS with no insulin resistance; PCOS-IR—PCOS with insulin resistance; * no significant differences were found between PCOS-IR and PCOS-NIR and the control group (p > 0.05).