. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 1.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 May 29;21(11):2303–2309. doi: 10.1002/oby.20326

Table 2.

Measures of Fat distribution Among Metabolically Healthy and Metabolically Abnormal Hispanics in the IRAS Family Study.^*

	Obese Phenotype			Overweight Phenotype			Normal Weight^** (n=234)

	Metabolically healthy (n=74)	Metabolically abnormal (n=323)	¹P-value	Metabolically healthy (n=138)	Metabolically abnormal (n=201)	²P-value		³P-value	⁴P-value
VAT, cm²	107.7 (5.9)	127.7 (4.7)	0.0005	106.3 (3.1)	117.1 (3.1)	0.0083	103.3 (4.7)	0.6078	0.4160
SAT^∫, ^cm²	458.9 (13.4)	476.0 (7.0)	0.2546	293.7 (6.7)	302.3 (5.4)	0.3186	171.8 (4.7)	<0.0001	<0.0001
VSR	0.33 (0.02)	0.37 (0.02)	0.0205	0.35 (0.01)	0.39 (0.01)	0.0044	0.37 (0.02)	0.0830	0.0843
Liver Density⁺ (HU)	51.1 (1.7)	44.9 (1.4)	0.0002	53.6 (1.3)	51.5 (1.2)	0.1642	57.5 (1.4)	0.0132	0.0145
LSR ⁺	1.10 (0.03)	0.98 (0.03)	0.0008	1.17 (0.03)	1.10 (0.02)	0.0383	1.24 (0.03)	0.0087	0.0534
% Fat from DXA⁺	33.3 (0.7)	33.6 (0.4)	0.6445	32.7 (0.5)	32.9 (0.4)	0.6988	30.6 (0.6)	0.0057	0.0008
% Lean from DXA⁺	64.1 (0.7)	63.8 (0.3)	0.6898	64.5 (0.5)	64.3 (0.3)	0.7097	66.4 (0.5)	0.0104	0.0016

Adjusted for age, gender, and clinic, liver enzymes, and BMI (Adjusted mean (SE) values with p-values indicating obese and overweight group differences; p <0.05 indicates significant differences between MH and MA groups).

^**

Normal Weight metabolically healthy (MH) participants only.

⁺

Measures obtained at follow-up, sample sizes reduced by approximately 20%

^∫

SAT not adjusted for BMI

p-values comparing metabolically healthy obese to metabolically abnormal obese

p-values comparing metabolically healthy overweight to metabolically abnormal overweight

p-values comparing normal weight to metabolically healthy obese

⁴

p-values comparing normal weight to metabolically healthy overweight