Table 2.

Correlation between visceral adipose tissue and metabolic parameters in patients with lipodystrophy versus matched controls

	Generalized lipodystrophy (N = 43)		Control (N = 43)		Partial lipodystrophy (N = 50)		Control (N = 50)
	Spearman correlation coefficient	p value	Spearman correlation coefficient	p value	Spearman correlation coefficient	p value	Spearman correlation coefficient	p value
Glucose	−0.01	0.9	0.42	0.005	0.14	0.3	0.36	0.013
Haemoglobin A1c	−0.07	0.7	n/a	n/a	0.03	0.9	0.30	0.09
Triglycerides	−0.01	0.9	0.36	0.02	0.18	0.2	0.60	<0.0001
HDL‐C	0.05 (N = 39)	0.8	−0.34	0.03	0.22 (N = 45)	0.1	−0.64	<0.0001

HDL‐C, high‐density lipoprotein cholesterol; n/a, not applicable.