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Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2013 Nov 26;38(4):563–568. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2013.220

Table 3.

Anthropometric and metabolic parameters by race for the subset of children in the MET study (N = 40) with data on inflammatory markers

	Blacks (n = 13)	Whites (n = 27)	P-value^a

	Mean ± s.e.m.
z_BMI	1.311 ± 0.248	1.061 ± 0.181	0.4235
Body fat (%)	10.9 ± 2.432	9.88 ± 0.817	0.6971
HOMA-IR (mmol µl⁻²)	0.956 ± 0.322	0.701 ± 0.0105	0.4671
VAT (cm²)	16.152 ± 1.438	14.884 ± 1.479	0.5470
SAT (cm²)	233.6 ± 75.248	131.4 ± 15.689	0.2367
IHL (%)	0.006 ± 0.002	0.008 ± 0.001	0.546
IMCL (%)	0.005 ± 0.001	0.004 ± 0.0003	0.2385
EMCL (%)	0.012 ± 0.002	0.009 ± 0.001	0.1589

Abbreviations: ANOVA, analysis of variance; BMI, body mass index; EMCL, extramyocellular lipids; IHL, intrahepatic lipid; IMCL, intramyocellular lipid; MET Study, Mechanisms for the Metabolic Syndrome in Prepubertal Youth Study; SAT, subcutaneous adipose tissue; VAT, visceral adipose tissue.

One-way ANOVA.