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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2017 Oct 9;42(3):501–506. doi: 10.1038/ijo.2017.250

Table 3.

Percent of variance of total body composition (n= 251) and abdominal fat (n= 222) explained by baseline predictors and after addition of anthropometric measures

ADP- Total body composition
MRI- Abdominal fat
FM FMI FFM FFMI TAAT sSAT dSAT IAT
Model 1 16.3 14.4 36.2 19.6 31.8 31.3 24.0 30.1
Model 1+ Weight 51.2 42.7 86.1 46.7 78.4 74.6 65.2 62.1
Model 1+ Length 28.1 19.6 64.8 19.6 54.5 53.8 40.9 44.3
Model 1+ Weight/length ratio 51.6 46.5 81.0 58.8 75.1 70.9 63.7 60.3
Model 1+ neonatal BMI 45.1 44.9 66.3 69.2 63.3 59.4 54.6 52.7
Model 1+ PI 31.8 35.2 47.4 67.1 46.0 43.3 39.5 40.9
Model 1+ Abdominal circumference 28.5 25.1 54.8 33.7 47.0 46.4 35.3 39.6
Model 1+ Triceps skinfold 39.2 36.9 45.2 26.0 52.6 51.2 41.5 43.4
Model 1+ Subscapular skinfold 39.2 36.6 41.3 20.9 52.9 51.9 43.2 41.9
Model 1+ Sum of skinfold 42.0 39.6 43.9 23.4 55.1 53.9 44.5 44.0

Values are r2.

Model 1 (baseline): includes infant sex, gestational age at birth, ethnicity, exact age at body composition measurement and maternal height, pre-pregnancy BMI, gestational weight gain as independent variables

ADP, air displacement plethysmography; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; FM, fat mass; FMI, fat mass index; FFM, fat free mass; FFMI, fat free mass index; TAAT, total abdominal adipose tissue; sSAT, superficial subcutaneous adipose tissue; dSAT, deep subcutaneous adipose tissue; IAT, internal adipose tissue; BMI, body mass index; PI, ponderal index