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TABLE 2.

Age- and Sex-adjusted Pearson’s Correlation Coefficients for Inflammatory Markers and Fat Volumes.

Marker	Pericardial Fat	Intrathoracic Fat
CD40 ligand	-0.05	-0.05
C-reactive protein	0.29^a	0.36^a
Fibrinogen	0.17^a	0.22^a
Intercellular adhesion molecule-1	0.11^b	0.11^b
Interleukin-6	0.20^a	0.22^a
Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A₂
Activity	0.0002	0.02
Mass	-0.01	0.01
Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1	0.12^a	0.13^a
Myeloperoxidase	0.04	0.08^c
Osteoprotegerin	-0.004	-0.001
P-selectin	0.10^b	0.10^b
Tumor necrosis factor receptor 2	0.12^a	0.12^a

Tumor necrosis factor-alpha^d	0.05	0.04
Urinary isoprostanes^d	0.17^a	0.23^a

P<0.0001,

P<0.001,

P<0.01

Secondary analyses with smaller sample size (urinary isoprostanes, n=961; tumor necrosis factor-alpha, n=813)