Table 1.
Demographic characteristics and dietary intake of study participants.
Fig 1.
Bar plots representing concentration of serum nitric oxide, pentosidine, and carboxymethyllysine in BMI groups.
BMI≤19.5 (1), 19.6≤BMI≤24.9 (2) and BMI≥25 (3). Lower and upper bar boundaries are lower and upper 95% coefficient intervals (CI), the upper line of the bar is median. Each bar plot reports comparison test p-values (ANCOVA) using log-transformed NO, pentosidine, and CML by adjusting confounder effects of age, sex, and WHR.
Fig 2.
Bar plots representing concentration of serum nitric oxide, pentosidine, and carboxymethyllysine in each sex groups.
Lower and upper bar boundaries are lower and upper 95% coefficient intervals (CI), the upper line of the bar is median. Each bar plot reports a comparison test p-value (ANCOVA) using log-transformed NO, pentosidine, and CML by adjusting confounder effects of age, BMI, and WHR.
Fig 3.
Correlations between serum nitric oxide, pentosidine and carboxymethyllysine with BMI in the total participants (A, B, and C), and based on the gender (A1, B1, and B2 for males), (A2, B2, and C2 for females). P and R are based on the Partial analysis using log-transformed NO, pentosidine, and CML. The confounder effects of age, sex, and WHR were adjusted for A, B, and C and the confounder effects of age and WHR considered for other scatters.
Table 2.
Correlation of nitric oxide (NO) with pentosidine and carboxymethyllysine (CML).