Table 2.

Associations between tongue attenuation values with upper airway measures and body composition parameters in all subjects.

	Spearman’s rho	P-value
Upper airway measures
Tongue CSA	−0.23	0.0009
MPH	−0.41	<.0001**
Pharyngeal length	−0.35	<.0001*
Body composition parameters
BMI	−0.43	<.0001†
Abdominal circumference	−0.44	<.0001†
Subcutaneous AT	−0.27	<.0001†
Visceral AT	−0.53	<.0001†
Neck circumference	−0.47	<.0001†
Neck AT	−0.43	<.0001†

^*P<0.01,

^**P<0.001,

^†P<0.0001 after multivariate adjustment for age and gender.