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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 Dec 2;22(3):852–862. doi: 10.1002/oby.20489

Table 2.

Pearson correlation coefficients between total, subcutaneous, and visceral abdominal adiposity volumes, versus demographics, traditional anthropometrics and stereovision body imaging parameters

Parameters Abdominal Adiposity Volume a
Total Subcutaneous Visceral
Demographic
 Age 0.29** 0.17 0.50**
 Gender − 0.15 − 0.23** 0.16
 Ethnicity 0.15 0.16 0.05
Traditional Anthropometric
 Height (cm) − 0.03 − 0.05 0.05
 Weight (kg) 0.75** 0.73** 0.47**
 Body mass index (kg/m2) 0.85** 0.84** 0.51*
 Waist circumference (cm) 0.85** 0.81** 0.60**
 Hip circumference (cm) 0.83** 0.83** 0.45**
 Waist-to-hip ratio 0.59** 0.50** 0.60**
 Waist-to-height ratio 0.88** 0.84** 0.60**
 Sagittal diameter (cm) 0.84** 0.78** 0.63**
Stereovision Body Imaging
 Stereovision waist (cm) 0.79** 0.72** 0.67**
 Stereovision hip (cm) 0.81** 0.84** 0.36**
 Stereovision thigh (cm) 0.54** 0.61** 0.09
 Stereovision waist-to-hip ratio 0.36** 0.22* 0.62**
 Stereovision waist-to-thigh ratio 0.23* 0.09 0.55**
 Stereovision waist-to-height ratio 0.81** 0.74** 0.65**
 Central obesity depth (cm) 0.83** 0.75** 0.71**
 Central obesity width (cm) 0.82** 0.81** 0.47**
a

Determined by magnetic resonance imaging

**

Correlation is significant at 0.01 level (2-tailed)

*

Correlation is significant at 0.05 level (2-tailed)