. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 13.

Published in final edited form as: Int J Obes (Lond). 2020 May 13;44(9):1851–1858. doi: 10.1038/s41366-020-0590-y

Table 1.

Clinical characteristics of 132 adults with overweight/obesity

	mean ± SD
Clinical characteristics
Female (%)	56%
Caucasian (%)	77%
Age (y)	34.3 ± 6.8
Body mass index (BMI) (kg/m²)	35.8 ± 5.8
Physical activity (hrs/week)	4.6 ± 5.2
Dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry
Appendicular lean mass (ALM) (kg)	29.1 ± 7.4
% ideal appendicular lean mass (%)	102.2 ± 9.5
Computed tomography
Visceral adipose tissue (cm²) (VAT)	130.4 ± 62.7
Abdominal subcutaneous tissue (cm²) (SAT)	461.6 ± 138.7
VAT/SAT	0.29 ± 0.16
Thigh muscle area (cm²)	5.2 ± 0.2
Thigh muscle density (HU)	48.3 ± 4.9
Thigh intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT) (cm²)	8.8 ± 3.8
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Soleus intramyocellular lipids (lipid/water)	0.04 ± 0.02
Intrahepatic lipids (lipid/water)	0.15 ± 0.24
Glucose homeostasis
Matsuda Index	5.7 ± 4.4
Impaired fasting glucose (%)^*	3%
Impaired glucose tolerance (%)^**	17%

Impaired fasting glucose defined as fasting plasma glucose between 100 and 125 mg/dL

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Impaired glucose tolerance defined as two-hour plasma glucose during a 75g oral glucose tolerance test between 140 and 199 mg/dL