Table 3 Serum metabolite values correlated to insulin (Pearson’s correlation) for the total study population, and the carbohydrate and fasting groups separately

Metabolite

R (All)

P (All)*

R (CH)

P (CH)

R (F)

P (F)

Lactate

0.57

<0.001

0.31

0.136

0.70

<0.001

pyruvate

0.54

<0.001

0.26

0.203

0.54

0.001

Acetate

-0.53

<0.001

-0.40

0.046

-0.22

0.212

N.acetylgroups

-0.41

0.001

-0.06

0.788

0.10

0.576

Acetoacetate

-0.34

0.008

-0.04

0.847

0.21

0.221

Valine

-0.31

0.016

0.31

0.137

0.28

0.105

Lysine

-0.29

0.027

0.01

0.947

0.43

0.010

Citrate

0.28

0.029

0.27

0.192

0.50

0.002

Isoleucine

-0.28

0.030

-0.03

0.881

0.36

0.035

Glucose

0.26

0.043

0.40

0.047

-0.09

0.622

Propylene_Glycol

-0.24

0.062

0.07

0.748

0.21

0.219

Creatine

-0.23

0.075

-0.39

0.054

-0.18

0.292

Leucine

-0.23

0.079

0.17

0.425

0.25

0.149

Phenylalanine

-0.19

0.149

0.43

0.033

0.24

0.163

Glycerol

-0.19

0.152

-0.12

0.555

0.11

0.541

Alanine

0.15

0.262

0.18

0.386

0.30

0.076

Isopropyl alcohol

-0.12

0.344

0.20

0.331

0.12

0.500

3-Hydroxybutyrate

-0.10

0.442

0.12

0.562

0.36

0.035

Methanol

-0.10

0.457

-0.06

0.778

-0.05

0.761

Glutamine

-0.09

0.506

0.30

0.150

0.06

0.737

Creatinine

-0.08

0.543

0.23

0.263

-0.05

0.755

Threonine

-0.08

0.567

0.10

0.627

0.32

0.062

Acetone

0.04

0.780

0.15

0.489

0.39

0.019

Proline

-0.04

0.789

0.11

0.593

-0.03

0.880

Glycoproteins

0.02

0.873

0.06

0.787

0.49

0.003

Asparagine

-0.01

0.923

-0.05

0.818

0.47

0.005

Methionine

0.01

0.941

0.37

0.067

0.08

0.653

Dimethylsulfone

0.00

0.997

0.17

0.404

0.05

0.777