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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2015 Jun 4;39(11):1607–1618. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2015.104

Table 1.

Pearson correlation coefficients for extramyocellular adipose tissue and insulin resistance

Adipose
Tissue		 Body
Weight		 Abdominal
VAT		 Abdominal
SAT		 Glucose Insulin HOMA-
IR		 P-
Akt/Akt
Thigh
IMAT/PMAT		 0.827
(p=0.011)		 0.799
(p=0.018)		 0.649
(p=0.082)		 0.888
(p=0.003)		 0.610
(p=0.108)		 0.729
(p=0.040)		 −0.794
(p=0.060)
Calf
IMAT/PMAT		 0.738
(p=0.037)		 0.697
(p=0.055)		 0.754
(p=0.031)		 0.456
(p=0.256)		 0.923
(p=0.001)		 0.863
(p=0.006)		 −0.547
(p=0.261)
Total
IMAT/PMAT		 0.894
(p=0.0028)		 0.859
(p=0.006)		 0.740
(p=0.036)		 0.884
(p=0.004)		 0.743
(p=0.035)		 0.834
(p=0.010)		 −0.827
(p=0.042)
Abdominal
VAT		 0.988
(p<0.001)		 — 0.917
(p=0.001)		 0.693
(p=0.057)		 0.789
(p=0.020)		 0.784
(p=0.021)		 −0.968
(p=0.002)

IMAT/PMAT: intermuscular adipose tissue/perimuscular adipose tissue; VAT: abdominal visceral adipose tissue; SAT: abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue. P-Akt: serine473-phosphorylated Akt; Pearson correlation coefficients were computed with SAS 9.3 (pooled analysis, n=8).