Table 7.

Correlation between SAT-muscle measurements in abdomen and thigh and age-BMI for women and men

Abdomen (women)						Abdomen (men)
Parameter	Age		BMI		Parameter		Age		BMI
	Simple correlation						Simple correlation
	r	p -value	r	p -value			r	p -value	r	p -value
sSAT (mm)	0.103	0.020	0.550	< 0.001	sSAT (mm)		0.211	< 0.001	0.569	< 0.001
dSAT (mm)	0.236	< 0.001	0.736	< 0.001	dSAT (mm)		0.227	< 0.001	0.728	< 0.001
tSAT (mm)	0.284	< 0.001	0.787	< 0.001	tSAT (mm)		0.326	< 0.001	0.754	< 0.001
sSAT/dSAT	-0.292	< 0.001	-0.337	< 0.001	sSAT/dSAT		-0.232	< 0.001	-0.458	< 0.001
MT (mm)	-0.526	< 0.001	-0.120	0.006	MT (mm)		-0.348	< 0.001	-0.050	0.097
EG (%)	0.499	< 0.001	0.021	0.639	EG (%)		0.331	< 0.001	-0.011	0.718
MT/SAT	-0.434	< 0.001	-0.502	< 0.001	MT/SAT		-0.392	< 0.001	-0.483	< 0.001
Thigh (women)						Thigh (men)
sSAT (mm)	0.055	0.071	0.375	< 0.001	sSAT (mm)		0.023	0.436	0.305	< 0.001
dSAT (mm)	0.134	< 0.001	0.447	< 0.001	dSAT (mm)		0.027	0.480	0.557	< 0.001
tSAT (mm)	0.130	< 0.001	0.474	< 0.001	tSAT (mm)		0.004	0.903	0.623	< 0.001
sSAT/dSAT	-0.215	< 0.001	-0.393	< 0.001	sSAT/dSAT		0.009	0.803	-0.353	< 0.001
MT (mm)	-0.446	< 0.001	-0.111	< 0.001	MT (mm)		-0.392	< 0.001	0.059	0.047
EG (%)	0.376	< 0.001	0.096	0.020	EG (%)		0.318	< 0.001	0.047	0.117
MT/SAT	-0.402	< 0.001	-0.470	< 0.001	MT/SAT		-0.207	< 0.001	-0.458	< 0.001

A p-values in bold type denotes a significance difference (p < 0.05)

Abbreviations: body mass index, BMI; superficial subcutaneous adipose tissue, sSAT; deep subcutaneous adipose tissue, dSAT; total subcutaneous adipose tissue, tSAT; muscle thickness, MT; echogenicity, EG; standard deviation, SD