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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Clin Nutr. 2016 Apr 6;103(5):1311–1317. doi: 10.3945/ajcn.115.108738

Table 2.

Abdominal adipose tissue volumes and volume percentages in 3 ethnic groups: crude (unadjusted) results (n = 333)1

Abdominal adipose tissue compartment volumes, mL
 Abdominal adipose tissue,2 %
sSAT dSAT IAT sSAT dSAT IAT
Chinese (n = 146) 77.1 ± 21.5 12.8 ± 5.7 23.9 ± 8.3 9.4 ± 1.6 1.5 ± 0.6 2.9 ± 0.7
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Malay (n = 126) 77.9 ± 21.1 13.6 ± 5.3 22.5 ± 7.1 9.9 ± 1.8 1.7 ± 0.6 2.8 ± 0.7
 P 0.752 0.239 0.116 0.023 0.013 0.583
Indian (n = 61) 80.4 ± 23.8 14.3 ± 5.9 21.03 ± 6.5 10.4 ± 1.9 1.8 ± 0.6 2.7 ± 0.6
 P 0.316 0.066 0.012 < 0.001 0.001 0.106
1

All values are means ± SDs. P values were determined with the use of a linear regression model. dSAT, abdominal deep subcutaneous tissue; IAT, abdominal internal adipose tissue; sSAT, abdominal superficial subcutaneous tissue.

2

Derived from the ratio of adipose tissue volume of each compartment and the total abdominal volume.