Taste sensitivity, nutritional status and metabolic syndrome: Implication in weight loss dietary interventions

Table 4 Taste sensitivity in overweight and obese patients according to metabolic syndrome and gender

	Overall			Women			Men
	MetS+ (n = 33)	MetS- (n = 60)	P1	MetS+ (n = 21)	MetS- (n = 45)	P1	MetS+ (n = 12)	MetS- (n = 15)	P1
BMI (kg/m2)	33.7 ± 5.2	30.7 ± 4.2	0.002	33.5 ± 4.8	30.0 ± 3.9	0.002	34.1 ± 6.1	32.7 ± 4.4	0.485
BF%	47.7 ± 6.0	46.4 ± 4.7	0.281	50.3 ± 4.4	47.2 ± 4.5	0.013	43.1 ± 5.8	43.8 ± 4.2	0.744
Waist (cm)	106.2 ± 14.2	96.1 ± 16.3	0.004	101.9 ± 11.2	94.1 ± 9.4	0.005	113.9 ± 16.0	102.2 ± 28.0	0.288
Sweet (log g/L)	0.87 ± 0.41	0.80 ± 0.47	0.396	0.81 ± 0.45	0.72 ± 0.43	0.458	0.97 ± 0.31	1.02 ± 0.51	0.730
Salty (log g/L)	0.43 ± 0.56	0.16 ± 0.52	0.029	0.31 ± 0.50	0.10 ± 0.45	0.121	0.65 ± 0.62	0.33 ± 0.67	0.244
Sour (log g/L)	-0.01 ± 0.69	-0.27 ± 0.49	0.069	-0.08 ± 0.59	-0.39 ± 0.39	0.022	0.11 ± 0.85	0.08 ± 0.61	0.859
Bitter (log g/L)	-0.22 ± 0.28	-0.23 ± 0.31	0.956	-0.24 ± 0.27	-0.23 ± 0.29	0.846	-0.18 ± 0.30	-0.23 ± 0.37	0.757
GTAS	7.4 ± 2.0	7.7 ± 1.9	0.440	7.8 ± 2.0	7.8 ± 1.7	0.936	6.8 ± 1.9	7.5 ± 2.4	0.414

P values according to unpaired Student t-test or Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test. ¹MetS+ vs MetS- within the same group (overall or women or men). BMI: Body mass index; BF%: Percentage of body fat mass; MetS: Metabolic syndrome (+, presence; -, absence); GTAS: Global Taste Acuity Score.