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Table 2 Descriptive statistics of serum glucose, insulin and HOMA-IR in 150 cats classified as lean or overweight according to body condition score (BCS)

From: Homeostasis model assessment, serum insulin and their relation to body fat in cats

 

Lean (BCS ≤ 5) n = 73

Overweight (BCS ≥ 6 ) n = 77

Wilcoxon Rank Sums test

 

Mean (SD)

Median (Q1, Q3)

Mean (SD)

Median (Q1, Q3)

p-value

HOMA-IR

1.1 (0.9)

0.8 (0.4, 1.4)

2.0 (1.6)

1.4 (0.9, 2.7)

< 0.0001

Insulin (mU/L)

4.7 (3.8)

3.3 (2.3, 5.5)

6.7 (4.1)

6.3 (3.6, 8.8)

0.0002

Glucose (mmol/L)

5.2 (1.7)

4.8 (4.3, 5.6)

6.3 (2.0)

5.8 (5.1, 7.1)

< 0.0001