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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 6.

Pearson correlations of body metrics with adipose tissue compartments in A) men and B) women, α=0.5, N=84.

A)
	BMI r(p)	WHR r (p)	WHtR r (p)
TFA L3/L4	0.85 (<0.001)^*	0.27 (<0.05)^*	0.85 (<0.001)^*
VFA L3/L4^a	0.63 (<0.001)^*	0.36 (<0.01)^*	0.76 (<0.001)^*
IFA L3/L4^a	0.59(<0.001)^*	0.34 (<0.01)^*	0.74 (<0.001)^*
RFA L3/L4^a	0.52(<0.001)^*	0.30 (<0.01)^*	0.58 (<0.001)^*
SFA L3/L4	0.81(<0.001)^*	0.14 (0.21)	0.70 (<0.001)^*
VFR L3/L4^a	-0.02 (0.84)	0.24 (<0.05)^*	0.21 (0.06)
B)
TFA L3/L4	0.85 (<0.001)^*	0.33 (0.05)	0.91 (<0.001)^*
VFA L3/L4^a	0.70 (<0.001)^*	0.50 (<0.01)^*	0.86 (<0.001)^*
IFA L3/L4^a	0.73 (<0.001)^*	0.47 (<0.01)^*	0.86 (<0.001)^*
RFA L3/L4^a	0.49 (<0.01)^*	0.41 (<0.05)^*	0.65 (<0.001)^*
SFA L3/L4	0.75 (<0.001)^*	0.05 (0.76)	0.71 (<0.001)^*
VFR L3/L4^a	0.33 (<0.05)^*	0.58 (<0.01)^*	0.51 (<0.01)^*

: 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).