Table 3 Relations between insulin resistance with demographic, clinical and paraclinical characteristics of participants (n = 160)

Parameter (quantitative)

Insulin resistant (n = 119)

Median ± IQR

P – value

(Mann-Whitney Test)

Age (years)

23 ± 8

0.44

Height (cm)

164 ± 6.50

0.92

Weight (kg)

68 ± 14

0.79

Age at menarche (years)

12 ± 1

0.73

FSH¹ (IU/l)

2.73 ± 1.4

0.63

LH² (IU/l)

7.9 ± 8

0.19

MDA³ (μM)

0.5 ± 0.9

0.71

Hb⁴ (g/dl)

12.20 ± 0.4

0.04

TSH⁵ (mU/l)

3.26 ± 0.98

0.22

T4⁶ (nmol/l)

1.08 ± 0.28

0.38

PLT⁷ (N/mm3)

198 ± 70

0.40

BMI⁸ (kg/m2)

24.49 ± 5.13

0.99

SHBG⁹ (nmol/l)

34 ± 18.55

0.32

FAI¹⁰

1.67 ± 2.23

0.08

WHR¹¹

0.81 ± 0.01

0.05

Parameter (Qualitative)

Grouping

Insulin resistant (n = 119) Frequency (Percent)

Non- Insulin resistant (n = 41) Frequency (Percent)

P – value

(Chi-Square Tests)

Education

Illiterate

5 (100%)

0 (0%)

0.25

under diploma and Diploma

43 (69.4%)

19 (30.6%)

college education

71 (76.3%)

22 (23.7%)

Number of ovarian cysts group

N < 2

7 (100%)

0 (0%)

0.19

N > =2

112 (73.2%)

41 (26.8%)

PCOS phenotype

A

62 (74.7%)

21 (25.3%)

0.008

B

34 (91.9%)

3 (8.1%)

C

12 (57.1%)

9 (42.09%)

D

11 (57.9%)

8 (42.1%)

Marital status

Single

67 (69.8%)

29 (30.2%)

0.13

Married

52 (81.3%)

12 (18.8)

Phenotype group

Classic (A&B)

96 (80%)

24 (20%)

0.007

Non classic (C&D)

23 (57.5%)

17 (42.5%)

Exercise

No (<  90 minutes per week)

55 (83.3%)

11 (16.7%)

0.04

Yes (> = 90 minutes per week)

64 (68.1%)

30 (31.9%)

Economic status

Week (expenditure more than income)

41 (93.2%)

3 (6.8%)

< 0.001

Good (expenditure less than income)

78 (67.2%)

38 (32.8%)

Job

Housewife

47 (82.5)

10 (17.5%)

0.09

Employed

72 (69.9)

31 (30.1%)