Table 4.

Relationships between body fat and fat distribution and postprandial changes in intramyocellular ceramide concentrations

	BMI		Visceral Fat Mass
	Ρ	P value	ρ	P value
IMF fraction
ΔTotal Cer	−0.170	0.315	−0.213	0.206
ΔC14:0 Cer	−0.143	0.397	−0.295	0.076
ΔC16:0 Cer	−0.137	0.418	−0.285	0.088
ΔC18:1 Cer	−0.122	0.473	−0.160	0.345
ΔC18:0 Cer	−0.011	0.949	0.044	0.797
ΔC20:0 Cer	0.004	0.982	−0.004	0.981
ΔC24:1 Cer	−0.078	0.648	−0.208	0.216
ΔC24:0 Cer	−0.086	0.511	−0.242	0.148
SS fraction
ΔTotal Cer	−0.502	0.002	−0.580	0.0002
ΔC14:0 Cer	−0.010	0.954	−0.100	0.555
ΔC16:0 Cer	−0.233	0.166	−0.306	0.066
ΔC18:1 Cer	0.023	0.890	0.056	0.742
ΔC18:0 Cer	−0.072	0.671	−0.110	0.517
ΔC20:0 Cer	−0.133	0.431	−0.290	0.082
ΔC24:1 Cer	−0.461	0.0041a	−0.545	0.0005a
ΔC24:0 Cer	−0.439	0.0065a	−0.543	0.0005a

ρ represents the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. Intramyocellular ceramides are normalized to mg protein. The change (Δ) in intramyocellular ceramide concentrations was calculated as the data from the second biopsy minus that from the first biopsy.

^aStatistically significant association after the modified adjustment for multiple species comparisons.