Table 2.

Median baseline (1989) concentrations of leptin, adiponectin, and sTNFR2 in colorectal cancer cases and matched controls (193 pairs) and adenoma cases and matched controls (131 pairs) nested in CLUE II

	Overall			Men			Women
Colorectal cancer	Cases	Controls	p*	Cases	Controls	p*	Cases	Controls	p*
Leptin (ng/mL)	10.7	9.7	0.5	6.2	5.3	0.8	16.2	15.6	0.5
Adiponectin (μg/mL)	9.1	9.0	0.1	6.4	6.6	0.7	10.9	12.3	0.04
sTNFR2 (ng/mL)	2.6	2.4	0.06	2.8	2.4	0.01	2.5	2.4	0.8
Adenoma
Leptin (ng/mL)	8.6	9.1	0.8	5.4	4.6	0.6	15.6	15.7	0.7
Adiponectin (μg/mL)	9.3	8.2	0.5	6.6	6.1	0.2	13.0	11.9	0.9
sTNFR2 (ng/mL)	2.3	2.3	0.9	2.3	2.3	0.3	2.4	2.3	0.2

^*from generalized linear model