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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Clin Nutr. 2006 May;83(5):1062–1067. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/83.5.1062

TABLE 2.

Organ mass regression models1

Regression coefficient
Model and variable Estimate SE P R2
Model 1: Total OM = age + height + weight + sex 0.69
 Intercept 0.927 0.810 0.046
 Age −0.008 0.002 < 0.001
 Height 1.05 0.506 0.041
 Weight 0.012 0.003 < 0.001
 Sex 0.39 0.093 < 0.001
Model 2: Total OM = age + height + weight + sex + race 0.73
 Intercept 1.223 0.756 0.109
 Age −0.008 0.001 < 0.001
 Height 0.801 0.473 0.094
 Weight 0.016 0.003 < 0.001
 Sex 0.305 0.089 0.001
 Race −0.251 0.062 < 0.001
Model 3: Total OM = age + fat + FFM + sex 0.69
 Intercept 2.122 0.280 < 0.001
 Age −0.007 0.002 < 0.001
 Fat 0.008 0.004 0.029
 FFM 0.025 0.006 < 0.001
 Sex 0.260 0.138 0.063
Model 4: Total OM = age + fat + FFM + sex + race 0.75
 Intercept 1.848 0.032 < 0.001
 Age −0.007 0.001 < 0.001
 Fat 0.010 0.003 0.004
 FFM 0.033 0.005 < 0.001
 Sex 0.025 0.132 0.853
 Race −0.301 0.060 < 0.001
1

Total OM, the sum of individual organ (ie, liver, kidney, spleen, heart, and brain) masses by magnetic resonance imaging; FFM, fat-free mass. In the models, sex is represented as women, 0 and men, 1; race is represented as white, 0 and African American, 1. FFM was measured by using dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.