Subject characteristics
Table 1 depicts main clinical and biochemical characteristics of the subjects. Mean age ranged from 18 to 50 years and BMI ranged between 25 and 40.70 kg/m2.
Correlation analysis
Single correlation of each adipokines with clinical and biochemical risk factors of CVD are detailed in Table S3. The adipokines galectin-3 appeared related to BMI (r = -0.109, p = 0.038), diastolic blood pressure (DBP) (r = -0.123, p = 0.023), body fat mass (BFM) (r = -0.174, p = 0.003), ODP (r = -0.119, p = 0.044), waist circumference (WC) (r = -0.140, p = 0.017), FMI (r = -0.177, p = 0.003), as well as waist-hip ratio (WHR) (r = -.140, p = 0.017). Similar results were obtained between PAI-1 and BMI (r = -0.111, p = 0.036), DBP (r = -0.141, p = 0.009), BFM (r = -0.177, p = 0.003), ODP (r = -0.120, p = 0.041), WHR (r = -0.155, p = 0.008), FMI (r = -0.176, p = 0.003), plus WHR (r = -0.166, p = 0.005). In case of CRP, the significant correlations were observed with BMI (r = 0.121, p = 0.022), DBP (r = 0.129, p = 0.018), HDL (r = -.152, p = 0.007), hs.CRP (r = 0.858, p = 0.0001), HOMA (r = 0.167, p = 0.004), and ODP (r = -0.133, p = 0.024). Neither IL-1b nor MCP-1 were significantly associated with any of the anthropocentric data, blood and body composition parameters except for a positive association between IL-1b and age (r = 0.128, p = 0.015) and negative correlation between MCP-1 and FBS (r = -0.147, p = 0.009).
On the other hand, insulin shown very broad correlations with age (r = -0.146, p = 0.006), weight (r = 0.240, p = 0.0001), BMI (r = 0.232, p = 0.0001), RMR (r = 0.317, p = 0.0001), SBP (r = 0.112, p = 0.039), DBP (r = 0.217, p = 0.0001), TG (r = 0.290, p = 0.0001), HDL (r = -0.145, p = 0.01), hs.CRP (r = 0.178, p = 0.001), HOMA (r = 0.880, p = 0.0001), FBS (r = 0.176, p = 0.002), BFM (r = 0.227, p = 0.0001), fat-free mass (FFM) (r = 0.292, p = 0.0001), soft lean mass (SLM) (r = 0.278, p = 0.0001), SMM (r = 0.307, p = 0.0001), ODP (r = 0.253, p = 0.0001), WC (r = 0.307, p = 0.0001), FMI (r = 0.175, p = 0.003), WHR (r = 0.240, p = 0.0001).
Two patterns were identified. The first pattern was characterized by high level of galectin-3 and, PAI-1 and low level of IL-1β. The second one was associated with CRP, insulin and MCP-1 (Table S1). As shown in Table 3, association analysis of adipokines patterns demonstrated that pattern 2 were strongly correlated with the higher scores for RMR, DBP, HOMA, lipid profile, and body composition parameters, while negatively associated with age and HDL level (all p < 0.05). However, SBP, cholesterol, LDL, FBS, FFMI, and WHR appeared unrelated to PCA2 (all p > 0.05).
In contrast, neither biochemical parameters nor blood pressure of participants was significantly correlated to PCA1 pattern (all p > 0.05). The first pattern was, however, significantly associated with BFM, ODP, WC, FMI, and WHR (P < 0.05 for all).