Table 2.
Regression equations for adipose tissue compartments (n = 499).
| Estimate of regression coefficients for independent variables | Adjusted R2 | ||||||||
| Age (year) | Age2 | Age3 | Sex | Age × sex | Age2 × sex | Age3 × sex | Intercept | ||
| VAT | -2.22 × 10-2 | 2.59 × 10-3 | -2.15 × 10-5 | 6.97 × 10-1 | -6.77 × 10-2 | 7.52 × 10-4 | -4.10 × 10-6 | 4.73 × 10-1 | 0.428 |
| SAT | 4.47 × 10-1 | -3.26 × 10-3 | 5.54 × 101 | 5.88 × 101 | 0.244 | ||||
| Adjusted VAT | -6.10 × 10-2 | 2.89 × 10-3 | -2.20 × 10-5 | -1.76 × 10-2 | -2.01 × 10-2 | -8.11 × 10-4 | 8.77 × 10-6 | 1.59 × 100 | 0.440 |
| Adjusted SAT | 7.89 × 10-2 | -2.84 × 10-3 | 1.97 × 10-5 | -2.62 × 10-1 | 4.67 × 10-2 | -2.02 × 10-4 | -4.52 × 10-6 | 1.78 × 101 | 0.431 |
VAT, visceral adipose tissue, SAT, subcutaneous adipose tissue. Sex, Female = 1, Male = 0. All R2 are significant at P < 0.05