Table 1.
Clinical and biochemical characteristics of the study subjects.
Table 2.
Clinical and biochemical characteristics of the study subjects by BMI category.
Figure 1.
Serum GA of subjects with different fat mass levels.
The men, premenopausal women, and postmenopausal women groups were further stratified among seven subgroups of fat mass level respectively, according to 5 kg increments of fat mass. This stratification revealed that GA decreased as fat mass increased for all three groups (all P for trend <0.001).
Figure 2.
Serum GA of subjects with different %fat levels in the same BMI category.
In the same BMI category, subjects with elevated %fat (≥25% for men, ≥35% for women) had significantly lower GA than those with normal %fat (<25% for men, <35% for women) in both men and postmenopausal women (all P<0.05), while in premenopausal women, the differences were not significant (P = 0.076 and P = 0.087 respectively).
Table 3.
Correlation and partial correlation with serum GA.
Table 4.
Stepwise multivariate regression analyses on serum GA.