Table 3.
Abdominal Body Fat Composition of Women With and Without Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
| Abdominal Body Fat (MRI) | Nonobese |
Obese |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PCOS Features | Non-PCOS | PCOS Features | Non-PCOS | |
| Subcutaneous fat mass, kg | 3.2 (2.4, 3.5) | 2.7 (2.4, 3.2) | 6.6 (5.8, 8.3)a | 5.9 (5.6, 6.4) |
| Subcutaneous fat, % | 4.9 (3.9, 5.5) | 4.5 (4.1, 4.9) | 7.9 (7.3, 8.5) | 7.4 (7.1, 7.7) |
| Intraperitoneal fat mass, kg | 0.66 (0.52, 0.79) | 0.69 (0.59, 0.77) | 1.27 (1.16, 1.43) | 1.24 (1.14, 1.32) |
| Intraperitoneal fat, % | 1.0 (0.8, 1.2) | 1.1 (1.0, 1.2) | 1.4 (1.3, 1.6) | 1.4 (1.3, 1.5) |
| Retroperitoneal fat mass, kg | 0.44 (0.38, 0.52) | 0.45 (0.41, 0.46) | 0.75 (0.71, 0.80)a | 0.68 (0.65, 0.72) |
| Retroperitoneal fat, % | 0.70 (0.62, 0.81) | 0.76 (0.67, 0.80) | 0.87 (0.80, 0.93)a | 0.81 (0.76, 0.85) |
Data presented as median (95% confidence intervals).
a
Significantly different between obese PCOS and non-PCOS (P < 0.05); obesity defined as body fat ≥35%.