Table 3. Spearman’s partial correlation analysis of skeletal muscle index (SMI), visceral fat area (VFA) and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) with cardiometabolic parameters adjusting for age and gender effects.

	SMI		VFA		CRF
	r-value	P-value	r-value	P-value	r-value	P-value
Systolic blood pressure	−0.106	0.084	0.403	<0.001	−0.219	<0.001
Diastolic blood pressure	−0.107	0.080	0.390	<0.001	−0.230	<0.001
Total cholesterol	0.017	0.783	0.035	0.574	−0.017	0.777
Triglyceride	−0.090	0.142	0.374	<0.001	−0.136	0.026
HDL-cholesterol	0.192	0.002	−0.356	<.001	0.177	0.004
Glucose	−0.040	0.513	0.151	0.013	0.028	0.652
HOMA-IR	−0.251	<0.001	0.526	<0.001	−0.255	<0.001
Number of MetS components	−0.269	<0.001	0.573	<0.001	−0.256	<0.001
hsCRP	−0.231	<0.001	0.450	<0.001	−0.256	<0.001
Interleukin-6	−0.089	0.148	0.117	0.056	−0.163	0.008
TNF-α	0.012	0.840	0.099	0.107	−0.041	0.502
Leptin	−0.496	<0.001	0.463	<0.001	−0.312	<0.001
Visceral fat area	−0.311	<0.001			−0.339	<0.001
SMI			−0.311	<0.001	0.317	<0.001

HDL, high density lipoprotein; HOMA-IR, homeostasis model assessment insulin resistance; hsCRP, high sensitivity C-reactive protein; MetS, metabolic syndrome; SMI, skeletal muscle mass index TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor-α.

r-value stands for the Spearman partial correlation coefficient.