Table 3.

Pearson and partial correlations between bone marrow adipose tissue and body adiposity indices and biochemistry measurements in overweight and obese PCOS patients.

	Pearson correlations		Partial correlationsa		Partial correlationsb		Partial correlationsc
	R	p	R	p	R	p	R	p
BMI	0.006	0.959	0.012	0.914	—	—	—	—
VAT area	0.075	0.489	0.087	0.427	0.106	0.336	0.088	0.431
SAT area	-0.037	0.736	-0.034	0.753	-0.059	0.589	-0.036	0.749
TAT area	-0.011	0.086	-0.006	0.953	-0.026	0.814	-0.007	0.950
TG	-0.068	0.529	-0.064	0.560	-0.066	0.549	-0.078	0.486
TC	0.20	0.063	0.210	0.052	0.210	0.054	0.209	0.060
HDL-C	-0.024	0.829	-0.030	0.787	-0.028	0.803	0.027	0.811
LDL-C	0.253	0.018	0.263	0.014	0.263	0.015	0.262	0.017
Glucose	0.053	0.629	0.066	0.544	0.066	0.550	0.057	0.613
Insulin	-0.013	0.908	-0.011	0.920	-0.018	0.870	-0.011	0.920

^aPartial correlations adjusted for age;

^bPartial correlations adjusted for age and BMI;

^cPartial correlations adjusted for age, BMI, FT, SHBG, and LH.

BMI, body mass index; VAT, visceral adipose tissue; SAT, subcutaneous adipose tissue; TAT, total adipose tissue; TG, triglyceride; TC, total cholesterol; HDL-C, high density lipoprotein-cholesterol; LDL-C, low density lipoprotein-cholesterol.

The bold values mean statistically significant (p < 0.05).