Table 2. Variance explained in abdominal subcutaneous fat mass and intra-abdominal fat mass by body mass index, waist circumference and their combination in each of the pooled samples.

	Canada+Turku #		Helsinki/Turku ¤		Canada/Helsinki/Turku∥
	ASFM		ASFM		ASFM
	Crude	Adjusted*	Crude	Adjusted*	Crude	Adjusted*
	R2	R2	R2	R2	R2	R2
BMI	0.47	0.60	0.65	0.76	0.56	0.70
WC	0.11	0.56	0.43	0.73	0.29	0.66
BMI+WC	0.49	0.62	0.66	0.78	0.57	0.72

Abbreviations: ASFM, abdominal subcutaneous fat mass. BMI, body mass index- IAFM, intra-abdominal fat mass. R², adjusted squared multiple correlation coefficients. WC, waist circumference.

^*Regression models adjusted for study center, sex, age, type 2 diabetes status.

^#Intra-abdominal fat mass = intra-peritoneal fat mass+retroperitoneal fat mass.

^¤Intra-abdominal fat mass = intra-peritoneal fat mass.

^∥Intra-abdominal fat mass = intra-peritoneal fat mass+retroperitoneal fat mass in Canada and intra-peritoneal mass in Helsinki and Turku.

p<0.05 for WC and BMI in all models, except for BMI in † where p>0.05.