. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 18.

Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2015 Jun 5;23(7):1479–1485. doi: 10.1002/oby.21128

Table 2.

Adipocytokines Across Adolescence: Coefficients from Linear Mixed Effects Models

	TFM and VAT covariates included togetder into tde model

	MCP-1		TNF-α		IL-6		IL-1β		IL-8

	β^*	P	β	P	β	P	β	P	β	P

Age	−2.31	0.09	−0.39	<0.001	−0.28	0.001	−0.25	<0.001	−0.23	<0.001
TFM_BASELINE	−0.32	NS	0.04	NS	0.07	NS	0.05	NS	0.01	NS
ΔTFM	0.96	0.071	0.02	NS	0.00	NS	0.02	NS	−0.01	NS
VAT_BASELINE	0.45	NS	0.00	NS	0.00	NS	−0.01	NS	0.00	NS
ΔVAT	0.29	0.040	0.01	NS	0.00	NS	0.00	NS	0.01	0.027
Sex^†	10.37	0.077	1.12	<0.001	−0.41	NS	−0.09	NS	0.25	NS

	TFM and VAT covariates included separately into the model

TFM_BASELINE	0.54	NS	0.04	0.04	−0.002	0.055	−0.002	0.052	0.00	NS
ΔTFM	2.01	0.008	0.03	NS	0.00	NS	0.00	NS	0.00	NS
VAT_BASELINE	0.52	NS	0.01	NS	0.00	NS	0.00	NS	0.00	NS
ΔVAT	0.53	0.007	0.01	0.026	0.00	NS	0.00	NS	0.002	0.032

Coefficients are reported back-transformed from the Box-Cox transformations.

^†

Coded as male=1 and female=0. ΔTFM and ΔVAT are change-from-baseline in total fat mass and visceral adipose tissue area, respectively.