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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 8.

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

	Baseline	CPAP	Sham-CPAP	p-value^#	p-value^¶	p-value⁺
BMI kg·m⁻²	30.57±0.72	31.21 ±0.77	30.63±0.75	0.40	1.00	0.17
Total VAT cm²	604.87±46.41	621.13±48.05	603.89±46.16	1.00	1.00	0.66
Total SAT cm²	1612.92±85.40	1582.86±107.79	1583.78± 105.11	1.00	1.00	1.00
Total (VAT+SAT) cm²	2217.79±95.56	2203.99±119.60	2187.66±121.00	1.00	1.00	1.00
Liver fat HUs	53.63±3.65	53.63±3.57	53.38±3.47	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.