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Published in final edited form as: Eur Radiol. 2016 Feb 6;26(11):4131–4140. doi: 10.1007/s00330-016-4231-8

Table 5.

Pearson correlations of body metrics with adipose tissue compartments, α = 0.5, N(total) = 120, N(women)=84, N(women)=36.

	BMI r(p)	WHR r (p)	WHtR r (p)
TFA L3/L4	0.85 (<.0001) ^*	0.31 (<0.01) ^*	0.84 (<.0001) ^*
VFA L3/L4^a	0.65 (<.0001) ^*	0.51 (<.0001) ^*	0.69 (<.0001) ^*
IFA L3/L4^a	0.65 (<.0001) ^*	0.47 (<.0001) ^*	0.71 (<.0001) ^*
RFA L3/L4^a	0.52 (<.0001) ^*	0.45 (<.0001) ^*	0.51 (<.0001) ^*
SFA L3/L4	0.77 (<.0001) ^*	0.04 (0.7)	0.71 (<.0001) ^*
VFR L3/L4^a	0.15 (0.11)	0.51 (<.0001) ^*	0.22 (<0.05) ^*

: square root transformed version of the variable was used, TFA= total fat area, VFA= visceral fat area, SFA= subcutaneous fat area, IFA= intraperitoneal fat area, RFA= retroperitoneal fat area and VFR= visceral fat ratio VFA/SFA.

= significant (p<0.05).