Table 6.

Spearman rho correlations between adipose tissue and cardiometabolic profiles by level of injury.

	SBP	DBP	FG	Sg	SI	TG	TC	LDL	HDL	TC/HDL ratio
Paraplegia SCI (n = 35)
SAT volume	0.14	−0.24	0.04	−0.19	−0.08	−0.004	0.20	0.03	0.09	0.06
VAT volume	0.18	0.20	0.22	−0.001	−0.50**	0.49**	0.17	0.16	−0.45**	0.51**
VAT/SAT ratio	0.13	0.40*	0.10	−0.01	−0.36*	0.45**	0.16	0.20	−0.44*	0.46**
Tetraplegia SCI (n = 12)
SAT volume	−0.42	−0.46	0.19	−0.59	−0.31	0.41	0.25	0.27	−0.25	0.55
VAT volume	−0.20	0.06	0.52	−0.43	−0.20	0.43	0.02	0.06	−0.52	0.54
VAT/SAT ratio	0.28	0.61*	0.38	−0.01	−0.10	0.39	−0.09	−0.11	−0.52	0.273

Note: Diastolic blood pressure; FG, Fasting glucose; HDL, High density lipoprotein-cholesterol; LDL, low density lipoprotein-cholesterol; S_G, glucose effectiveness; S_I, insulin sensitivity; SBP, systolic blood pressure; TC, total cholesterol; TC/HDL, total cholesterol/HDL ratio; TG, triglycerides.

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.009.