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Published in final edited form as: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2018 Mar 1;77(3):308–316. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000001606

Table 2.

Correlations Among Visceral Adipose Tissue Mass, Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Mass, Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and Carotid Artery Ultrasound Parameters

	Visceral Adipose Tissue (VAT) mass		Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue (SAT) mass
	HIV-infected (N=244)	HIV-uninfected (N=99)	HIV-infected (N=244)	HIV-uninfected (N=99)
Age (years)	0.18^** [0.05, 0.30]	0.27^** [0.08, 0.44]	−0.055 [−0.18, 0.07]	−0.024 [−0.22, 0.17]
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg)	0.12 [−0.007, 0.24]	0.32^** [0.13, 0.49]	0.13^* [0.007, 0.25]	0.20 [−0.001, 0.38]
SAT (kg)	0.57^*** [0.48, 0.65]	0.77^*** [0.68, 0.84]	--	--
VAT (kg)	--	--	0.57^*** [0.48, 0.65]	0.77^*** [0.68, 0.84]
Total body fat by BIA (kg)	0.56^*** [0.49, 0.64]	0.79^*** [0.70, 0.86]	0.93^*** [0.90, .94]	0.96^*** [0.94, 0.97]
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	0.095 [−0.03, 0.22]	0.13 [−0.07, 0.32]	0.049 [−0.08, 0.18]	0.098 [−0.10, 0.29]
HDL-cholesterol (mg/dL)	−0.26^*** [−0.37, −0.12]	−0.49^*** [−0.63, −0.33]	−0.094 [−0.28, 0.03]	−0.32^*** [−0.48, −0.13]
hsCRP (mg/L)^†	0.28^*** [0.16, 0.40]	0.69^*** [0.56, 0.78]	0.22^*** [0.094, 0.34]	0.61^*** [0.47, 0.73]
Common carotid artery IMT (μm)	0.076 [−0.05, 0.20]	0.19 [−0.01, 0.37]	0.092 [−0.03, 0.22]	−0.051 [−0.25, 0.15]
Young’s modulus of elasticity (10⁵^* N^* m⁻²)	0.22^*** [0.10, 0.34]	0.16 [−0.04, 0.35]	0.16^* [0.04, 0.28]	0.28^** [0.09, 0.45]

Values are Spearman correlation coefficients with 95% confidence intervals. P-values:

< 0.05,

^**

< 0.01,

^***

< 0.001

^†

n = 226 HIV-infected; n = 92 HIV-uninfected

Abbreviations: BIA, bioelectrical impedance analysis; IMT, carotid intima-media thickness; eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; SAT, subcutaneous adipose tissue; VAT, visceral adipose tissue.