Research Article
Lipid Accumulation Product Is More Related to Insulin Resistance than the Visceral Adiposity Index in the Maracaibo City Population, Venezuela
Table 1
General characteristics of the sample (Maracaibo, Venezuela).
| | Without IR (n = 1031) | With IR (n = 787) | Total (n = 1818) | n | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) |
| Gender | Female | 531 | 51.5 | 403 | 51.2 | 934 | 51.4 | Male | 500 | 48.5 | 384 | 48.8 | 884 | 48.6 |
| Age (years) | <30 | 394 | 38.2 | 259 | 32.9 | 653 | 35.9 | 30–59 | 542 | 52.6 | 459 | 58.3 | 1001 | 55.1 | ≥60 | 95 | 9.2 | 69 | 8.8 | 164 | 9.0 |
| | BMI (kg/m2) (mean ± SD) | 26.3 ± 5.2 | 30.3 ± 6.4 | 28.0 ± 6.1 | WC (cm) (mean ± SD) | 89.7 ± 12.6 | 99.4 ± 15.9 | 93.9 ± 14.9 | Triglycerides (mmol/L) (median p25–p75th) | 1 (0.7–1.5) | 1.3 (0.9–1.9) | 1.2 (0.8–1.7) | HDL-C (mmol/L) (median p25–p75th) | 1.1 (0.9–1.4) | 1.1 (0.9–1.2) | 1.1 (0.9–1.3) | LAP (median p25–p75th) | 27.8 (14.7–49.1) | 51.32 (30.1–84.5) | 36.1 (18.7–63.5) | VAI (median p25–p75th) | 1.4 (0.9–2.3) | 2.1 (1.3–3.2) | 1.7 (1–2.7) |
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IR: insulin resistance; BMI: body mass index; SD: standard deviation; WC: waist circumference; LAP: lipid accumulation product; VAI: visceral adiposity index. Student’s t-test, . Mann–Whitney U test, . |