Association between a novel dietary lipophilic index (LI) with metabolic phenotypes in a community-based study in Tabriz- Iran

Table 2 The mean (SD) values of metabolic biochemical variables by tertiles of dietary LI

Parameter [mean (SD)]	Total		LI tertiles						P _trend
	Total		1st tertile (N = 166)		2nd tertile (N = 167)		3rd tertile (N = 171)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
FBS (mg/dl)	91.18	30.34	87	17.29	93.79	37.12	92.31	31.77	0.2
LDL (mg/dl)	89.02	23.52	82.52	20.51	91.8	29.72	92.07	17.45	< 0.001
HDL (mg/dl)	42.74	9.39	45.21	8.94	42.43	10.64	40.84	7.98	< 0.001
TG (mg/dl)	167.31	107.88	155.71	99.31	175.3	113.62	169.96	109.52	0.3
TC (mg/dl)	181.12	40.69	185.13	40.48	177	37.39	181.6	43.84	0.3
AIP	0.05	0.06	0.04	0.01	0.06	0.1	0.05	0	0.1
LDL:HDL ratio	2.45	2.98	1.99	0.51	2.92	4.8	2.33	0.52	0.1
ALT (U/l)	20.83	19.33	18.28	8.54	21.02	11.98	22.94	29.45	0.1
AST (U/l)	22.05	7.84	20.82	5.99	22.86	9.49	22.34	7.39	0.1

SD standard deviation; FBS fasting blood sugar; LDL low-density lipoprotein; HDL high-density lipoprotein; TG triglyceride; TC total cholesterol; AIP AthErogenic index of plasma; ALT alanine amino transferase; AST aspartate aminotransferase. The bold values represents the significant threshold. The P-values are obtained from Cochran-Armitage test

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