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Table 3.

Association of BMI and Ectopic Fat Measures with Natural-Log-Transformed IL-6 and hs-CRP in Unadjusted and Adjusted Linear Regression Models

(A) Interleukin-6
	Unadjusted			Adjusted for age, sex, race, HIV status			Fully adjusted^#
	β	95%CI	P value	β	95%CI	P value	β	95%CI	P value
BMI	0.029	0.016, 0.042	<0.001^*	0.033	0.018, 0.048	<0.001^*	0.031	0.013, 0.048	0.001^*
PCF	0.004	0.001, 0.007	0.005^*	0.004	0.001, 0.007	0.009^*	0.003	−0.001, 0.006	0.111
TAT	0.020	−0.001, 0.040	0.054	0.018	−0.003, 0.038	0.086	0.005	−0.017, 0.028	0.641
LA Roof	−0.008	−0.013, −0.002	0.004^*	−0.008	−0.013, −0.003	0.003^*	−0.006	−0.011, 0.001	0.054
Peri RCA	−0.002	−0.007, 0.003	0.541	−0.001	−0.006, 0.004	0.561	−0.001	−0.006, 0.004	0.684
Liver HU	−0.005	−0.023, 0.013	0.579	−0.006	−0.025, 0.012	0.503	0.001	−0.019, 0.021	0.913

(B) Hs-CRP
	Unadjusted			Adjusted for age, sex, race, HIV status			Fully adjusted^#
	β	95%CI	P value	β	95%CI	P value	β	95%CI	P value
BMI	0.074	0.049, 0.099	<0.001^*	0.073	0.044, 0.103	<0.001^*	0.075	0.041, 0.110	<0.001^*
PCF	0.007	0.002, 0.013	0.010^*	0.007	0.002, 0.013	0.012^*	0.006	−0.001, 0.012	0.071
TAT	0.055	0.017, 0.093	0.005^*	0.065	0.027, 0.104	0.001^*	0.568	0.013, 0.101	0.012^*
LA Roof	−0.017	−0.027, −0.008	<0.001^*	−0.017	−0.027, −0.007	0.001^*	−0.014	−0.026, −0.003	0.013^*
Peri RCA	0.003	−0.007, 0.123	0.533	0.002	−0.008, 0.012	0.663	0.003	−0.007, 0.013	0.552
Liver HU	−0.013	−0.048, 0.022	0.469	−0.006	−0.043, 0.030	0.734	0.003	−0.036, 0.043	0.864

PCF: pericardial fat, TAT: thoracic periaortic adipose tissue, LA Roof: left atrium roof, Peri-RCA: peri-right coronary artery

Fully adjusted model adjusts for age, sex, race, HIV status, insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), current smoking, and systolic blood pressure.

P < 0.05