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/m^2) (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)

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, .