Table 2.

Multivariate regression analyses to predict sWAT CIDEA, PRDM16 and UCP1 and vWAT PRDM16 gene expression in the human cohort.

	sWAT CIDEA		sWAT PRDM16		sWAT UCP1		vWAT PRDM16
	β	P	β	P	β	P	β	P
Age (years)	−0.16	0.15	−0.14	0.28	0.08	0.6	0.15	0.25
Sex	−0.05	0.63	−0.01	0.92	0.14	0.38	−0.12	0.34
BMI (kg/m2)	−0.21	0.04	−0.17	0.19	0.05	0.76	−0.27	0.03
Serum free T4 (pmol/L)	0.24	0.03	0.35	0.01	0.4	0.02	0.24	0.05
Adjusted R2	0.096 (9.6%)		0.105 (10.5%)		0.087 (8.7%)		0.101 (10.1%)
P (model)	0.018		0.04		0.1		0.4

β corresponds to the standardized beta coefficient of the multiple regression analyses. Bold indicates statistical significance.