Table 2.

Pearson correlation coefficients (r values) between OGTT glucose area under the curve and measures of mid-thigh soft tissue composition^a

Mid-thigh CT scan	Men			Women
	age adjusted	adjusted for age and FM	adjusted for age and visceral adiposity	age adjusted	adjusted for age and FM	adjusted for age and visceral adiposity
Muscle
Total muscle
Attenuation	–0.244	–0.067	–0.074	–0.181	–0.063	–0.048
Surface area	0.115	0.005	0.006	0.198	0.130	0.033
Normal attenuation
Attenuation	–0.100	–0.209	–0.223	–0.005	–0.043	–0.131
Surface area	0.018	0.020	0.031	0.080	0.100	0.077
Low attenuation (‘fatty’)
Mean value	–0.162	–0.011	–0.069	–0.000	0.002	0.171
Surface area	0.198	–0.036	–0.056	0.179	0.055	–0.089
Adipose tissue area
Total	0.162	–0.371	–0.160	0.066	–0.275	–0.230
Subcutaneous	0.156	–0.353	–0.162	0.056	–0.284	–0.234
Subfascial	0.195	–0.156	–0.050	0.238	0.204	–0.012

^aValues in italics are statistically significant (p < 0.05).