Inflammatory Role of Toll-Like Receptors in Human and Murine Adipose Tissue

Table 1

General characteristics of the study subjects.

	Lean	Obese	Obese	Obese
		Normoglycemic	Glucose intolerant	Type 2 diabetic
	($n=7$)	($n=12$)	($n=11$)	($n=11$)
Age (yr)	$42.6\pm 13.8$	$43.5\pm 5.0$	$40.7\pm 5.5$	$48.2\pm 7.1$
BMI (kg/m2)	$21.4\pm 2.4$	$44.2\pm 4.8$	$46.3\pm 4.8$	$48.8\pm 6.6$
Fasting glucose (mmol/l)	$4.38\pm 0.67$	$5.00\pm 0.50$	$5.48\pm 0.95$	$8.53\pm 2.13$
Glucose 2h OGTT (mmol/l)	n.d.	$6.18\pm 0.72$	$8.51\pm 1.13$	n.d.
Insulin (mUI/l)	n.d.	$11.23\pm 6.52$	$11.80\pm 3.82$	$19.92\pm 14.33$

Mean value  ±  SD. Comparisons were made between the various categories of obese patients using the Kruskal-Wallis test; n.d.  =  not done.