Table 2.

Correlations of abdominal and femoral subcutaneous adipose tissue estrogen receptor alpha (ESR1) and estrogen receptor beta (ESR2) mRNA expression with age, fat mass, serum estradiol and leptin among pre-and postmenopausal women.

	ESR1		ESR2		ESR1:ESR2
	Abdominal	Femoral	Abdominal	Femoral	Abdominal		Femoral
Pearson Correlations
Age	−0.380*	−0.353*	0.014	0.137	−0.463**		−0.472**
%fat	−0.291†	−0.219†	−0.028	−0.053	−0.359*		−0.211†
Total fat mass	−0.178	−0.160	−0.139	−0.061	−0.127		−0.156
Trunk fat mass	−0.270†	−0.256†	−0.162	−0.048	−0.247†		−0.264†
Leg fat mass	−0.007	−0.004	−0.078	−0.078	0.082		−0.029
VFA	−0.233†	−0.248†	−0.129	−0.055	−0.224		−0.229†
Abdominal SFA	−0.155	−0.179	−0.038	−0.032	−0.296†		−0.250†
Femoral SFA	0.022	0.030	0.130	−0.038	−0.071		0.042
Serum E2	0.155	0.148	−0.011	−0.123	0.258†		0.496**
Serum Leptin	−0.248†	−0.294*	−0.215	−0.082	−0.130		−0.218†
Partial Correlations
Age (adjusted for %fat)	−0.336*	−0.320*	−0.021	0.152		−0.417**	−0.446**
Age (adjusted for E2)	−0.361*	−0.327*	0.010	0.085		−0.398*	−0.285+
Age (adjusted for leptin)	−0.417**	−0.405**	−0.005	0.129		−0.480**	−0.511**

^*p≤0.05;

^**p≤0.01;

^†p≤0.15;

VFA = visceral fat area; SFA = subcutaneous fat area; E₂ = estradiol.