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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 26.
Published in final edited form as: Open Obes J. 2010;2:137–144. doi: 10.2174/1876823701002010137

Table 2.

Associations between Muscle Lipids and Anthopometric and Serum Data by Ethnicity; r(p)

African-American (n=14) European-American (n=16)
Soleus IMCL Soleus EMCL Tibialis anterior IMCL Tibialis anterior EMCL Soleus IMCL Soleus EMCL Tibialis anterior IMCL Tibialis anterior EMCL
BMI 0.11 (0.71) −0.005 (0.99) 0.25 (0.41) −0.05 (0.87) 0.59 (0.01) 0.37 (0.15) 0.47 (0.07) 0.44 (0.08)
Total body fat mass 0.26 (0.37) 0.23 (0.42) 0.39 (0.19) 0.20 (0.51) 0.62 (0.01) 0.57 (0.02) 0.51 (0.04) 0.51 (0.04)
Trunk fat mass 0.26 (0.38) 0.20 (0.50) 0.41 (0.16) 0.14 (0.64) 0.69 (0.003) 0.58 (0.02) 0.49 (0.05) 0.46 (0.07)
Right Leg fat mass 0.22 (0.45) 0.32 (0.26) 0.26 (0.39) 0.39 (0.18) 0.40 (0.12) 0.49 (0.05) 0.53 (0.03) 0.56 (0.02)
Fasting glucose −0.04 (0.90) 0.26 (0.37) −0.11 (0.72) 0.04 (0.90) 0.09 (0.74) 0.26 (0.34) 0.20 (0.45) −0.08 (0.77)
Fasting insulin −0.11 (0.70) −0.10 (0.73) 0.004 (0.99) 0.005 (0.99) 00.7 (0.79) 0.14 (0.60) 0.18 (0.52) 0.43 (0.10)

IMCL = intramyocellular lipid; EMCL = extramyocellular lipid.