Table 2.

Difference of visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue between subjects with prediabetes, diabetes, and healthy controls

	All	Controls	Prediabetes	p-valuea	Diabetes	p-value b
N = 384	N = 235	N = 97	N = 52
Body adipose tissue
TATvolume, l	12.6 ± 5.5	10.7 ± 4.7	15.3 ± 5.3	<0.001	16.1 ± 5.4	<0.001
VATvolume, l	4.5 ± 2.7	3.4 ± 2.3	5.8 ± 2.4	<0.001	6.9 ± 2.5	<0.001
SATvolume, l	8.1 ± 3.7	7.3 ± 3.2	9.6 ± 4.2	<0.001	9.2 ± 3.8	0.001
Ratio VAT/SATvolume	0.59 ± 0.33	0.49 ± 0.29	0.68 ± 0.34	<0.001	0.82 ± 0.34	<0.001

SAT, subcutaneous adipose tissue; TAT, total adipose tissue; VAT, visceral adipose tissue.

p-values are Bonferroni corrected for the repeated comparison to the control group.

^aprediabetes vs. controls. ^b diabetes vs. controls.