Table 3 Demographic and clinical characteristics at baseline (fasting state) for atherosclerotic plaque versus no atherosclerotic plaque groups stratified by gender.

From: Gender differences in fasting and postprandial metabolic traits predictive of subclinical atherosclerosis in an asymptomatic Chinese population

Variable

Plaque 0

Plaque > 0

P value for plaque category

P value for gender distribution

P value for gender* variable interaction on plaque category

Males (n = 30)

Females (n = 33)

Males (n = 25)

Females (n = 13)

BMI (kg/m2)

23.85 ± 2.80

23.26 ± 3.03

23.68 ± 2.89

22.98 ± 2.68

0.8630

0.3081

0.9331

Weight (kg)

70.21 ± 9.15

60.07 ± 8.25

70.74 ± 10.28

56.48 ± 5.77

0.6547

 < .0001

0.1836

Glucose (mmol/L)

5.06 ± 0.39

5.0 ± 0.34

5.17 ± 0.40

4.88 ± 0.42

0.5818

0.0624

0.1410

Insulin (uU/mL )

7.47 ± 4.86

8.15 ± 4.79

9.19 ± 6.37

7.62 ± 4.66

0.4426

0.8132

0.3573

C-Peptide (ng/ml)

1.88 ± 0.79

2.02 ± 0.81

2.17 ± 0.90

1.84 ± 0.66

0.5379

0.7994

0.1900

LDL-C (mmol/l)

3.31 ± 0.74

3.13 ± 0.74

3.41 ± 0.75

3.58 ± 0.61

0.0942

0.4934

0.2667

HDL-C (mmol/L)

1.48 ± 0.28

1.62 ± 0.26

1.37 ± 0.31

1.80 ± 0.42

0.6128

0.0002

0.0271

Triacylglycerol (mmol/L)

1.13 ± 0.70

0.91 ± 0.43

1.31 ± 0.64

0.79 ± 0.34

0.3386

0.0028

0.2279

Cholesterol (mmol/l)

5.30 ± 0.86

5.15 ± 0.89

5.37 ± 0.87

5.73 ± 0.72

0.1318

0.9343

0.1907

age

46.47 ± 4.15

47.30 ± 4.64

48.80 ± 3.59

49.23 ± 4.13

0.0188

0.7084

0.6239

Framingham score

4.83 ± 2.57

5.42 ± 2.89

6.44 ± 2.20

6.62 ± 3.10

0.0144

0.7188

0.4227

HOMA-IR

1.84 ± 1.31

1.94 ± 1.20

2.30 ± 1.71

1.75 ± 1.08

0.4333

0.5615

0.3105

HOMA-β

78.66 ± 48.77

91.98 ± 50.74

91.19 ± 61.31

97.41 ± 64.15

0.4941

0.4018

0.7510

Adiponectin (pg/mL)

5,454,728 ± 2,361,782

6,099,140 ± 2,424,829

4,518,684 ± 1,743,636

5,953,585 ± 1,547,828

0.0853

0.0193

0.3452

TNFα (pg/mL)

23.50 ± 16.96

13.66 ± 8.02

16.77 ± 13.56

10.54 ± 3.38

0.1688

0.0018

0.3042

PAI-1 (pg/mL)

27,463.6 ± 11,895.7

21,808.6 ± 9059.3

31,909.4 ± 10,408.2

27,134.9 ± 8870.3

0.0089

0.0039

0.4767

Leptin (pg/mL)

2147.8 ± 1643.6

9630.3 ± 6828.8

2804.4 ± 2839.2

6345.4 ± 3305.9

0.0363

 < .0001

0.0919

  1. In italic are significant differences between plaque category within gender subgroups (*P < 0.05).
  2. Significant values are in bold.
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