Body Composition and Metabolic Improvement in Patients Followed Up by a Multidisciplinary Team for Obesity in China

Table 2

Variation of anthropometric and metabolic indicators after treatment of obesity MDT.

		Baseline	After follow-up	value
Weight (kg)	119			<0.001
Lean body mass (kg)	119			<0.001
Hip circumference (cm)	119			<0.001
Muscle mass of lower extremities (kg)	119			<0.001
Body adiposity index	119			<0.001
Fat-free mass index	119			0.043
Fasting plasma glucose (mmol/L)	119			0.002
Fasting insulin (μIU/mL)	119			0.002
HOMA-IR	119			<0.001
HOMA-β	119			0.134
HbA1c (%)	34			0.038
ALT (U/L)	54			0.001
AST (U/L)	53			0.021
Uric acid (μmol/L)	53			0.480
Triglyceride (mmol/L)	54			0.745
TCHO (mmol/L)	54			0.320
HDL-c (mmol/L)	54			<0.001
LDL-c (mmol/L)	54			0.963

ALT: glutamic-pyruvic transaminase; AST: glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase; TCHO: total cholesterol; HDL-c: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-c: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol. χ² test for categorical variables and Student’s -test for continuous variables.