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Table 2 Demographic and clinical characteristics of study subjects by genotypes

From: Association of the C825T polymorphism in the GNB3 gene with obesity and metabolic phenotypes in a Taiwanese population

Characteristic

CC

CT

TT

CT + TT

P valuea

No. of subjects

176

491

305

796

 

Age (years)

39.7 ± 13.0

40.6 ± 11.7

39.5 ± 10.8

40.2 ± 11.4

0.650

Gender (male %)

61.9 %

60.9 %

59.7 %

60.4 %

0.712

BMI (kg/m2)

24.5 ± 3.9

23.9 ± 3.5

24.4 ± 3.9

24.1 ± 3.7

0.266

Triglyceride (mg/dl)

128.2 ± 93.2

114.2 ± 79.7

114.3 ± 78.2

114.3 ± 79.1

0.041

Waist (cm)

81.8 ± 10.6

81.0 ± 9.8

81.5 ± 10.5

81.2 ± 10.1

0.462

Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)

126.7 ± 15.7

126.4 ± 15.8

126.3 ± 14.1

126.3 ± 15.2

0.766

Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)

81.9 ± 11.2

81.4 ± 11.3

81.1 ± 10.6

81.3 ± 11.0

0.482

Fasting glucose (mg/dl)

88.6 ± 22.5

88.3 ± 22.1

88.3 ± 23.3

88.3 ± 22.5

0.875

Total cholesterol (mg/dl)

194.5 ± 36.8

186.1 ± 31.0

190.7 ± 35.8

187.9 ± 33.0

0.019

  1. Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation
  2. BMI body mass index
  3. P values are obtained by comparing the subjects of the combined CT + TT genotypes with those of the CC genotype