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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 21.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetologia. 2010 Feb 9;53(5):866–874. doi: 10.1007/s00125-010-1657-4

Table 2.

Baseline correlations between fasting NEFA and metabolic variablesa

Spearman Correlation Coefficients
(p-value for r)
Number of observations
2 hr glucose FPG BMI WHR* Weight Waist Fasting Insulin AIR (MM) SI
All participants
Fasting NEFA 0.371 (<0.0001)
902 		0.056 (0.09)
902 		0.156 (<0.0001)
900 		−0.059 (0.08)
899 		0.013 (0.7)
900		 0.075 (0.02)
899		 0.113 (0.001)
901 		− 0.024 (0.5)
878 		−0.228 (<0.0001)
838
NGT
Fasting NEFA 0.244 (<0.0001)
601 		−0.042 (0.3)
601 		0.081 (0.05)
599 		−0.080 (0.05)
599 		−0.059 (0.15)
599		 0.001 (1.0)
599		 0.085 (0.04)
600 		0.067 (0.1)
585 		−0.139 (0.001)
560
IGT
Fasting NEFA 0.170 (0.003)
301 		−0.147 (0.01)
301 		0.103 (0.08)
301 		−0.142 (0.01)
300 		0.013 (0.8)
301		 −0.002 (1.0)
300		 −0.013 (0.8)
301 		0.044 (0.5)
293 		−0.135 (0.03)
278
a

All the variables are in the original scale;

WHR- waist-to-hip ratio