The relationship between regional abdominal fat distribution and both insulin resistance and subclinical chronic inflammation in non-diabetic adults

Table 1 The characteristics of the study group

	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Standard deviation
Age (year-old)	41	59	49.20	9.00
BMI	17.51	39.26	28.58	10.27
Body fat (%)	13.00	41.20	27.66	14.75
Intra-peritoneal fat (cm³)	7550.00	56835.40	29188.67	21382.91
Retro-peritoneal fat (cm³)	2243.32	46774.30	24433.28	22231.98
Subcutaneous fat (cm³)	59741.12	134556.08	95929.75	36293.45
IR (HOMA)	9.54	16.87	13.57	2.24
hs-CRP (ng/ml)	0.25	13.09	6.84	6.05
Adiponectin ((μg/ml))	22.28	117.53	65.28	38.68
Leptin (ng/ml)	1.62	33.79	15.71	13.66
TNF-α (pg/ml)	6.50	19.42	13.66	5.75
Resistin (ng/ml)	2.16	49.82	25.28	20.36

BMI body mass index, IR insulin resistance, HOMA homeostasis model assessment, TNF-α tumour necrotic factor -α.

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