. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 8.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2013 Aug 16;38(5):719–723. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2013.153

Table 5.

Spearman’s correlation coefficients among adiposity variables

	Age-, sex- and height (m²)-adjusted correlations
	BMI	Waist girth	Fat cell volume
Arm fat	0.79^*	0.71^*	0.63^*
Leg fat	0.74^*	0.56^*	0.52^**
Trunk fat	0.78^*	0.80^*	0.63^*
Total fat	0.81^*	0.73^*	0.64^*
VAT	0.32^***	0.29^****	0.21
IHL	0.21	0.29^****	0.15
IMCL	0.16	0.31^***	0.08

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; IHL, intrahepatic lipids; IMCL, intramyocellular lipids; VAT, visceral adipose tissue. Correlations for fat cell volume were based on 76 subjects. All others were based on 75 subjects.

P≤0.0001,

^**

P≤0.001,

^***

P≤0.01,

^****

P≤0.05.