High Plasma Glucagon Levels Correlate with Waist-to-Hip Ratio, Suprailiac Skinfold Thickness, and Deep Subcutaneous Abdominal and Intraperitoneal Adipose Tissue Depots in Nonobese Asian Indian Males with Type 2 Diabetes in North India
Table 1
Biochemical profile of nonobese males with T2DM (cases; ) and nonobese males without diabetes (controls; ).
Biochemical variables
Cases ()
Controls ()
value
Fasting blood glucose (mg/dl)
147.8 ± 51.1
89.5 ± 8.3
<0.01
Postprandial blood glucose (mg/dl)
222.5 ± 82.9
89.3 ± 13.7
<0.01
Glycosylated haemoglobin (%)
9.0 ± 2.5
5.2 ± 0.37
<0.01
Fasting serum insulin (ng/ml)
9.5 ± 6.1
5.5 ± 2.6
<0.01
Postprandial serum insulin (ng/dl)
19.7 ± 5.0
8.0 ± 3.0
<0.01
Fasting plasma glucagon (pg/ml)
83.8 ± 27.1
65.6 ± 7.8
<0.01
Postprandial plasma glucagon (pg/ml)
80.2 ± 24.9
64.1 ± 8.8
<0.01
Total cholesterol (mg/dl)
175.4 ± 41.5
152.4 ± 29.1
<0.01
Serum triglycerides (mg/dl)
170.1 ± 99.4
97.1 ± 45.8
<0.01
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (mg/dl)
40.7 ± 8.9
42.4 ± 8.3
0.31
Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (mg/dl)
110.3 ± 31.2
96.8 ± 25.3
<0.05
Very low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (mg/dl)
33.5 ± 19.3
19.4 ± 9.1
<0.01
Serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase (U/l)
57.8 ± 21.7
45.6 ± 18.1
<0.01
Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (U/l)
27.9 ± 12.8
23.6 ± 9.2
<0.05
Values are presented as means ± SD. : statistically significant.
