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Published in final edited form as: Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2013 Jan;65(1):62–70. doi: 10.1002/acr.21810

Table 4.

Relationship between body fat/obesity measures and disease status and cardiovascular risk factors^*

	DXA			BMI		Waist circumference
	Total fat % (Total fat mass/ total mass)^§	Obese by DXA	Trunk fat % (Trunk fat mass/ total mass^§	Original	New	Original	New
Men
Disease status
Pain rating (0 – 10)	0.8 (0.2, 1.4) ^††	0.9 (−0.7, 2.4)	1.2 (0.1, 2.3) ^†	1.4 (0.02, 2.6) ^†	1.3 (0.1, 2.7) ^†	0.8 (−0.4, 2.1)	0.7 (−0.6, 1.9)
RADAI score	0.6 (0.1, 1.1) ^†	0.5 (−0.7, 1.7)	0.8 (−0.1, 1.7)	1.2 (0.2, 2.2) ^†	1.0 (0.0, 2.0) ^†	0.6 (−0.4, 1.6)	0.4 (−0.6, 1.4)
Fatigue	1.1 (0.4, 1.7) ^††	0.7 (−1.0, 2.5)	1.6 (0.3, 2.9) ^†	1.5 (0.02, 2.9) ^†	1.3 (−0.1, 2.8)	0.7 (−0.7, 2.2)	0.8 (−0.6, 2.2)
HAQ	0.1 (−0.04, 0.3)	−0.2 (−0.7, 0.2)	0.2 (−0.1, 0.5)	0.4 (0.05, 0.8) ^†	0.2 (−0.2, 0.5)	0.2 (−0.2, 0.6)	0.2 (−0.1, 0.6)
ESR	1.2 (−4.5, 6.9)	1.8 (−11.4, 15.1)	4.4 (−5.6, 14.4)	11.6 (0.9, 22.4) ^†	1.9 (−9.1, 12.9)	9.6 (−1.0, 20.3)	10.1 (−0.2, 20.4)
Cardiovascular risk factors
Framingham Risk Score	0.1 (−0.5, 0.7)	0.8 (−0.6, 2.2)	0.7 (−0.3, 1.8)	1.8 (0.7, 2.9) ^††	1.1 (−0.1, 2.3)	1.4 (0.3, 2.5) ^†	1.8 (0.7, 2.8) ^††
hsCRP (log)	0.0 (−0.3, 0.3)	−0.5 (−1.0, 0.1)	0.2 (−0.3, 0.6)	0.4 (−0.1, 0.8)	−0.3 (−0.8, 0.2)	0.4 (−0.1, 0.9)	0.4 (−0.1, 0.9)
Women
Disease status
Pain rating (0 – 10)	0.9 (0.3, 1.4) ^††	1.3 (0.4, 2.2) ^††	1.5 (0.7, 2.2) ^††	2.1 (1.0, 3.2) ^††	0.9 (−0.03, 1.9)	1.5 (0.6, 2.4) ^††	1.0 (0.1, 1.9) ^†
RADAI score	0.7 (0.2, 1.1) ^††	0.9 (0.1, 1.6) ^†	1.2 (0.5, 1.8) ^††	1.7 (0.8, 2.6) ^††	0.6 (−0.2, 1.4)	1.2 (0.4, 1.9) ^††	0.9 (0.1, 1.6) ^†
Fatigue	0.9 (0.3, 1.5) ^††	1.2 (0.3, 2.2) ^†	1.7 (0.9, 2.5) ^††	2.4 (1.3, 3.6) ^††	1.4 (0.4, 2.4) ^††	2.0 (1.2, 2.8) ^††	1.5 (0.6, 2.5) ^††
HAQ	0.1 (−0.1, 0.3)	0.1 (−0.1, 0.4)	0.2 (−0.1, 0.5)	0.2 (−0.2, 0.5)	−0.1 (−0.3, 0.2)	0.3 (0.03, 0.6)^†	0.1 (−0.2, 0.4)
ESR	3.3 (−1.8, 8.4)	4.0 (−4.5, 12.5)	7.5 (0.1, 14.9) ^†	11.6 (0.6, 21.5) ^†	0.4 (−8.5, 9.2)	11.0 (2.3, 19.6) ^††	6.3 (−2.1, 14.7)
Cardiovascular risk factors
Framingham Risk Score	0.7 (−0.02, 1.4)	1.2 (0.1, 2.4) ^†	1.3 (0.3, 2.3) ^†	1.8 (0.4, 3.2) ^††	0.5 (−0.7, 1.7)	1.8 (0.7, 3.0) ^††	1.5 (0.3, 2.6) ^†
hsCRP (log)	0.3 (0.1, 0.5) ^†	0.3 (−0.1, 0.6)	0.4 (0.1, 0.8) ^†	0.5 (0.1, 1.0) ^†	0.2 (−0.2, 0.6)	0.3 (−0.1, 0.7)	0.3 (−0.1, 0.7)

Values in table are beta 95% confidence) from multivariate regression analyses, adjusted for age, glucocorticoid use, disease duration, and smoking. (Exception: Framingham risk scores were not adjusted for smoking because smoking in included in the calculation of the risk score.)

^§

Per 10% increment.

^†

p<.05;

^††

p<.01