. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Dec 1.

Published in final edited form as: J Heart Lung Transplant. 2019 Aug 10;38(12):1246–1256. doi: 10.1016/j.healun.2019.08.013

Table 2:

Convergent and divergent validity of adipose area and indexed adipose area with other measures of body composition. Values represent Pearson correlation coefficients.

	Abdomen				Chest
	VAT Area	VAT Index	SAT Area	SAT Index	VAT Area	VAT Index	SAT Area	SAT Index
Abdomen VAT Area	1
Abdomen VAT Index	0.99^*	1
Abdomen SAT Area	0.62^*	0.64^*	1
Abdomen SAT Index	0.56^*	0.60^*	0.98^*	1
Chest VAT Area	0.62^*	0.59^*	0.43^*	0.36^*	1
Chest VAT Index	0.62^*	0.60^*	0.46^*	0.40^*	0.99^*	1
Chest SAT Area	0.66^*	0.68^*	0.87^*	0.87^*	0.52^*	0.53^*	1
Chest SAT Index	0.60^*	0.64^*	0.85^*	0.88^*	0.46^*	0.49^*	0.99^*	1
Body mass index	0.58^*	0.59^*	0.74^*	0.71^*	0.47^*	0.47^*	0.67^*	0.65^*
Waist Circumference	0.74^*	0.71^*	0.69^*	0.62^*	0.61^*	0.59^*	0.65^*	0.57^*
Hip Circumference	0.58^*	0.56^*	0.77^*	0.72^*	0.43^*	0.42^*	0.69^*	0.62^*
Waist to Hip Ratio	0.57^*	0.55^*	0.25^*	0.19	0.47^*	0.46^*	0.25^*	0.20^*
Six-minute walk distance	0.02	−0.01	−0.06	−0.10	0.12	0.10	−0.18^*	−0.21

Definition of abbreviations: VAT = visceral adipose tissue area; VAT Index = visceral adipose tissue area divided by height²; SAT= subcutaneous adipose tissue area; SAT Index = subcutaneous adipose tissue area divided by height²

Waist circumference was available for 181 subjects, hip circumference was available for 182 subjects, waist to hip ratio was available for 181 subjects, six-minute walk distance was available on 239 subjects.

p ≤ 0.05