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. 2018 Mar 7;178(5):523–531. doi: 10.1530/EJE-17-0882

Table 2.

Principal component analysis. Loadings in men and women indicate the contribution of each variable (GU, glucose uptake) to principal components (PC1, PC2, PC3).

GU (μmol/kg tissue/min) Men Women All
PC1 PC2 PC1 PC2 PC1 PC2 PC3
Model 1
 Age (years) −0.205 0.895 −0.006 0.952 0.095 0.693
 Body mass index (kg/m2) −0.857 0.023 −0.724 −0.489 −0.829 0.108
 Gender −0.033 0.822
 Skeletal muscle GU 0.833 −0.091 0.850 0.126 0.830 0.015
 Subcutaneous adipose tissue GU 0.585 0.617 0.841 −0.206 0.703 0.240
 Variance explained (%) 45 30 49 30 38 25
Model 2
 Age (years) −0.206 0.864 −0.039 0.881 −0.047 0.887 0.070
 Body mass index (kg/m2) −0.828 −0.057 −0.700 −0.442 −0.744 −0.278 0.292
 Gender 0.061 0.076 0.959
 Skeletal muscle GU 0.837 −0.051 0.844 0.162 0.848 0.039 0.047
 Subcutaneous adipose tissue GU 0.458 0.662 0.846 −0.130 0.724 0.065 0.233
 Liver GU 0.513 0.423 0.193 0.768 0.322 0.684 0.011
 Variance explained (%) 38 27 39 32 32 22 18