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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Nov 27;17(2):276–282. doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.549

Table 3.

Pearson correlations (r) for markers of inflammation and adiponectin with insulin sensitivity by ethnicity; unadjusted, and adjusted for IAAT

	Whites		African Americans
	Unadjusted	Adjusted for IAAT	Unadjusted	Adjusted for IAAT
TNF-α	−0.15	−0.09	0.03	0.08
sTNFR-1	−0.04	0.02	−0.01	−0.10
sTNFR-2	−0.07	−0.02	0.13	0.11
IL-6	−0.24^*	−0.19	−0.04	−0.14
CRP	−0.30^*	−0.29^*	−0.15	−0.13
Adiponectin	0.44^*	0.40^*	0.33^*	0.29^*

Boldface values indicate correlation significant P < 0.05.

CRP, C-reactive protein; IAAT, intra-abdominal adipose tissue; IL-6, interleukin-6; sTNFR-1, soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor-1; sTNFR-2, soluble tumor necrosis factor receptor-2; TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor-α.

P < 0.05.