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Published in final edited form as: Eur Respir J. 2012 Jun 27;41(3):601–609. doi: 10.1183/09031936.00183411

TABLE 7.

Abdominal fat amount at baseline and after continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and sham-CPAP treatment phases in apnoeic males

	Baseline	CPAP	Sham-CPAP	p-value^#	p-value^¶	p-value⁺
BMI kg·m⁻²	27.22±0.55	27.57 ±0.52	27.39±0.54	0.13	1.00	0.67
Total VAT cm²	799.38±46.99	812.79±49.43	781.80±45.97	1.00	0.90	0.25
Total SAT cm²	768.72±51.13	794.48±51.67	766.95±53.47	0.22	1.00	0.23
Total (VAT+SAT) cm²	1568.09±87.66	1612.27 ±87.85	1548.75±89.18	0.43	1.00	0.13
Liver fat HUs	54.71 ±1.53	55.43±1.51	55.00 ±1.44	1.00	1.00	1.00

Data are presented as mean±SE, unless otherwise stated. BMI: body mass index; VAT: visceral adipose tissue; SAT: subcutaneous adipose tissue; HUs: Hounsfield units.

^{^#:}

baseline versus CPAP;

^{^¶:}

baseline versus sham-CPAP;

^⁺:

CPAP versus sham-CPAP.