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Table 1 Main characteristics that served in selection of groups of patients under study

From: Gender differences in factors influencing insulin resistance in elderly hyperlipemic non-diabetic subjects

 

MEN

WOMEN

 

Controls N = 10 Mean ± SD

Hyperlipemic patients N = 20 Mean ± SD

p

Controls N = 20 Mean ± SD

Hyperlipemic patients N = 20 Mean ± SD

p

Age (years)

60.3 ± 11.0

58.6 ± 10.4

0.69

56.9 ± 13.0

62.0 ± 7.36

0.15

Cholesterol (mmol/l)

5.07 ± 1.06

6.62 ± 0.82

0.0001

5.15 ± 0.70

6.92 ± 1.01

0.0001

Triglycerides (mmol/l)

1.11 ± 0.44

3.52 ± 1.38

0.0001

1.42 ± 0.47 *

2.72 ± 0.92*

0.0001 KS

HDL-chol. (mmol/l)

1.43 ± 0.39

0.96 ± 0.24

0.0003

1.50 ± 0.21

1.21 ± 0.21***

0.0001

LDL-chol. (mmol/l)

3.08 ± 0.83

4.38 ± 1.06

0.0047

3.21 ± 0.71

4.74 ± 1.02

0.0001

  1. Statistical significance between control and hyperlipemic groups was tested using the unpaired Student's T-test in the case of normal distribution of compared data sets, and using Kolmogorov-Smirnov's test when at least in one of the data sets compared the normal distribution was excluded (marked with KS). The significant p values are denoted by thick underlined numbers. With asterisks statistically significant differences between controls and hypelipemic patients of different gender are denoted (*, **, *** = p < 0,05, 0,01 and 0,001, respectively).