. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 10.

Published in final edited form as: J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2005 May 10;90(8):4573. doi: 10.1210/jc.2004-1764

TABLE 2.

Pearson correlations of measures of body composition and fat distribution with dependent variables

	Primary dependent variables
	INS₀	INS_AUC	INS_AUC × GLU_AUC	TG	HDL
Total fat mass (kg)	0.429^a	0.300^b	0.311^a	0.186	−0.292^a
Trunk fat mass (kg)	0.549^a	0.411^a	0.437^a	0.314^a	−0.367^a
Leg fat mass (kg)	0.201	0.108	0.099	−0.014	−0.118
SF volume (cm³)	0.360^a	0.229^b	0.225^b	0.127	−0.261^b
VF volume (cm³)	0.582^a	0.422^a	0.461^a	0.445^a	−0.432^a

SF, sc fat; VF, visceral fat; GLU, glucose; INS, insulin; AUC, total area under the curve; TG, triglycerides; HDL, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.

P < 0.01.

P < 0.05.