Table 2. Correlations between total adiposity and fat distribution measured by anthropometry and dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.

	Unadjusted correlations						Adjusted for age and BMI		Adjusted for age and FMI
	Waist	Hip	Height	BMI	FMI	Lean body mass	Waist	Hip	Waist	Hip
Men
Total fat	0.9	0.8	0.13	0.86	0.98	0.32	0.58	0.38	0.44	0.48
Android	0.91	0.76	0.07	0.86	0.97	0.29	0.62	0.26	0.51	0.23
Visceral fat	0.85	0.65	0.02*	0.8	0.86	0.28	0.49	0.06	0.36	0.04
Abdominal SAT	0.75	0.71	0.14	0.7	0.84	0.17	0.42	0.34	0.1	0.22
Arm fat	0.83	0.76	0.12	0.81	0.92	0.31	0.39	0.31	0.1	0.26
Gynoid fat	0.82	0.81	0.18	0.79	0.92	0.29	0.44	0.49	0.1	0.54
Leg fat	0.76	0.77	0.18	0.74	0.88	0.26	0.36	0.43	−0.03	0.33
Women
Total fat	0.85	0.88	0.06	0.91	0.98	0.27	0.35	0.47	0.32	0.51
Android	0.87	0.81	−0.01*	0.88	0.96	0.21	0.47	0.25	0.44	0.06
Visceral fat	0.76	0.63	−0.07	0.75	0.79	0.18	0.35	0.01*	0.3	−0.07
Abdominal SAT	0.84	0.82	0.01*	0.87	0.94	0.15	0.4	0.32	0.31	0.17
Arm fat	0.81	0.81	0.06	0.86	0.93	0.27	0.29	0.3	0.19	0.18
Gynoid fat	0.74	0.89	0.12	0.84	0.92	0.28	0.1	0.61	−0.08	0.56
Leg fat	0.68	0.85	0.13	0.8	0.87	0.28	0.02	0.54	−0.14	0.45

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; FMI, fat mass index. Pearson correlations using transformed measures (z-scores); anthropometric and DXA-measured fat depots. All correlations are statistically significant at P<0.001 except *non-significant.