Blood sample was taken from the median vein of each subject with a 12-h overnight fasting and placed into the ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA)-containing tube. The body mass index (BMI) of each subject was calculated equals to mass (kg)/height (m)2. For biochemical analyses, serum levels of fasting blood glucose (FBG), total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine transaminase (ALT), uric acid (UA), were measured by standard clinical laboratory techniques (IChem-540 automatic biochemical analyzer, Shenzhen, China), respectively.
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