Effects of Greek orthodox christian church fasting on serum lipids and obesity

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Table 3 Effect of various variables including fasting on serum lipids and BMI.^a

Dependent variables	Predictors	Beta	t	p
End Total Cholesterol	Pre-fasting TC	0.94	28.3	<0.001
	Fasting	-0.24	-7.7	<0.001
	WHR	0.19	3.2	0.002
	Sex	-0.12	-2.1	0.037
End LDL cholesterol	Pre-fasting LDL-C	0.93	32.7	<0.001
	Fasting	-0.23	-8.5	<0.001
	WHR	0.2	3.9	<0.001
	Sex	-0.12	-2.4	0.018
End HDL cholesterol	Pre-fasting HDL-C	0.74	10.9	<0.001
	Sex	-0.24	-3.54	<0.001
End TC/HDL cholesterol	Pre TC:HDL-C	0.85	19.1	<0.001
	Sex	0.17	3.9	<0.001
End LDL/HDL cholesterol	Pre LDL:HDL-C	0.88	21.0	<0.001
	Sex	0.14	3.4	<0.001
	Fasting	-0.1	-2.7	0.008
End fasting BMI	Pre-fasting BMI	1.0	115.9	<0.001
	Fasting	-0.35	-4.06	<0.001

Multiple Linear Stepwise Regression Analysis with mean end-TC, end-LDL cholesterol, end-HDL cholesterol, end-BMI and the end-ratios of TC/HDL-C and LDL-C/HDL-C as the dependent variables. Independent variables were age, mean pre-BMI, fasting, smoking, sex, educational level, WHR, pre-ratios of TC/HDL-C and LDL-C/HDL-C and the pre-values of the dependent variables. Sex, fasting and smoking are dummies (sex: 0 = females and 1 = males, fasting: 0 = control subjects and 1 = fasters, smoking: 0 = smokers and 1 = non-smokers). a. The subjects that had all six measurements were included (n = 71).

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