Journal of Inflammation

Table 3 Further ultrasonography and laboratory data

From: Young adult obese subjects with and without insulin resistance: what is the role of chronic inflammation and how to weigh it non-invasively?

	IR Absent		IR Present
	Median	25–75 P	Median	25–75 P
CRP ∞ mg/L	0.31	0.3–0.5	1.47	0.8–2.22
Fibrinogen1 mg/L	345.0	306.7–382	411.0	363.7–466.2
HS score† at US	0	0–1	2	0.7–2

Insulin resistance (IR); C-reactive protein (CRP); severity of hepatic steatosis at ultrasonography (HS score at US); [black circle] P = 0.04; ∞ P < 0.001; [black cross] P = 0.003; Percentile (P).

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