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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Aug 20;18(3):604–610. doi: 10.1038/oby.2009.251

Table 3.

Multivariate correlates of visceral fat

	Base model	Model 1: Base + postmenopause	Model 2: Base + hormones	Model 3: Base + hormones + HOMA

Parameter	Estimate (s.e.)^a	Estimate (s.e.)^a	Estimate (s.e.)^a	Estimate (s.e.)^a
% Body Fat	0.608 (0.038)^***	0.607 (0.038)^***	0.570 (0.036)^***	0.523 (0.036)^***
Age	0.067 (0.037)	0.024 (0.042)	0.048 (0.036)	0.047 (0.036)
White race	0.301 (0.072)^***	0.306 (0.072)^***	0.279 (0.067)^***	0.322 (0.068)^***
Framingham risk score	0.233 (0.039)^***	0.231 (0.039)^***	0.214 (0.036)^***	0.202 (0.036)^***
Depression (dichotomous)	0.194 (0.106)	0.200 (0.106)	0.260 (0.098)^*	0.180 (0.098)^*
Physical activity	−0.073 (0.037)^*	−0.075 (0.037)^*	−0.074 (0.034)^*	−0.055 (0.034)
Postmenopause indicator		0.174 (0.084)^*
Insulin resistance (HOMA-IR)^b				0.207 (0.035)^***
Bioavailable testosterone^b			0.202 (0.033)^***	0.166 (0.034)^***
Estradiol^b			−0.007 (0.034)	0.024 (0.034)
R²	0.574	0.579	0.614	0.649

HOMA-IR, homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance.

Estimates are standardized β-coefficients and standard errors.

Transformed by logarithm to base 10.

P ≤ 0.05,

^**

P ≤ 0.01,

^***

P ≤ 0.001.