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Table 1 Description of characteristics among tertiles of DII

From: Dietary inflammatory index (DII) may be associated with hypertriglyceridemia waist circumference phenotype in overweight and obese Iranian women: a cross sectional study

Variables

T1

N = 76

T2

N = 77

T3

N = 73

P value*

P value**

Age (year)

37.03 (8.52)a

37.06 (8.22)

34.82 (8.43)

0.12

0.08

PA (MET h/week)

1200.87 (1376.69)

1173.54 (1555.11)

1143.56 (2725.58)

0.98

0.97

Blood parameters

 FBS (mg/dL)

85.74 (8.06)

88.51 (10.31)

87.22 (10.50)

0.21

0.13

 Insulin (µIU/mL)

1.26 (0.23)

1.24 (0.21)

1.22 (0.25)

0.63

0.99

 HOMA-IR

3.63 (1.62)3

3.19 (1.25)

2.87 (0.93)1

0.02a

0.09

 TC (mg/dL)

184.02 (39.14)

188.66 (33.93)

182.42 (35.14)

0.54

0.42

 HDL-C (mg/dL)

47.37 (13.06)

46.01 (10.10)

46.77 (10.38)

0.75

0.74

 LDL-C (mg/dL)

95.12 (26.36)

97.12 (23.05)

91.69 (21.95)

0.36

0.25

 TG (mg/dL)

145.91 (68.73)

108.09 (43.03)

108.84 (61.55)1,2

0.002b

0.01

 SGOT (mg/dL)

17.00 (5.99)

18.54 (9.19)

17.93 (6.68)

0.44

0.42

 SGPT (mg/dL)

17.60 (9.72)

20.20 (16.12)

19.42 (11.63)

0.44

0.49

Body composition parameters

 BMI (kg/m2)

31.09 (3.88)

30.37 (4.65)

31.25 (4.10)

0.33

0.11

 SMM (kg)

25.67 (2.98)

25.54 (3.29)

25.66 (3.82)

0.96

0.95

 FFM (kg)

46.74 (5.02)

46.60 (5.58)

46.72 (6.49)

0.98

0.94

 WHR

1.94 (9.59)

0.93 (0.05)

0.93 (0.05)

0.37

0.85

 WC (cm)

98.97 (9.45)

97.76 (10.19)

99.52 (10.18)

0.48

0.38

Qualitative variables

 Economic status

  Poor

12 (41.4%)b

7 (20.7%)

11 (37.9%)

0.67***

0.77

  Moderate

35 (34.8%)

33 (33.9%)

32 (31.3%)

  Good

29 (32.8%)

32 (34.4%)

29 (32.8%)

  Excellent

2 (12.5%)

5 (50%)

3 (37.5%)

 Education status

  Illiterate

1 (33.3%)

1 (33.3%)

1 (33.3%)

0.46

0.37

  Diploma

11 (38.9%)

7 (19.4%)

12 (41.7%)

  University educated

64 (33%)

69 (35.3%)

60 (31.7%)

 Marriage status

  Single

14 (26.8%)

20 (39.3%)

19 (33.9%)

0.38

0.17

  Married

62 (35.7%)

57 (31.4%)

63 (32.9%)

 Familial obesity history

  Yes

55 (34.2%)

56 (34.7%)

50 (31/1%)

0.24

0.16

  No

21 (31.1%)

18 (27.3%)

23 (41.6%)

 Hypertriglyceridemic waist circumference phenotype

  NWNT

3 (16.7%)

5 (27.8%)

8 (55.5%)

0.26

0.19

  EWNT

21 (29.2%)

32 (39.3%)

25 (31.5%)

  NWET

7 (30.4%)

8 (34.8%)

8 (34.8%)

  EWET

45 (38.6%)

32 (30.0%)

32 (31.4%)

  1. Bold values indicate the significant range as a tabular foot
  2. T1, T2 and T3 are DII tertiles
  3. DII dietary inflammatory index, PA physical activity, FBS Fasting blood sugar, HOMA-IR Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance, TC total cholesterol, HDL-C high density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C low density lipoprotein cholesterol, TG triglyceride, SGOT serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase, SGPT Serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase, BMI: body mass index, SMM Skeletal muscle mass, FFM fat free mass, WHR waist to hip ratio, WC waist circumference, NWNT normal waist normal triglyceride, EWNT enlarged waist normal triglyceride, NWET normal waist enlarged triglyceride, EWET enlarged waist enlarged triglyceride
  4. * P value resulted from ANOVA analysis
  5. ** P value reported after adjusting age, energy intake, BMI and physical activity with ANCOVA
  6. *** P value resulted from chi-squared test analysis
  7. aMean ± SD
  8. bN(%), P value ≤ 0.05 is significant
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