Table 3.

Correlation between muscle components containing fat and muscle density and fat compartments.

Muscle components	Mean density of TAMAa		Mean density of SMAb (NAMAc+LAMAd)			Visceral fat area			Subcutaneous fat area
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male		Female	Male		Female
LAMA	–0.845	–0.884	–0.847	–0.898	0.686		0.617	0.274		0.459
IMATe	–0.629	–0.728	–0.647	–0.763	0.474		0.495	0.365		0.329
Myosteatosis area (LAMA+IMAT)	–0.833	–0.874	–0.838	–0.894	0.669		0.607	0.305		0.441

^aTAMA: total abdominal muscle area.

^bSMA: skeletal muscle area.

^cNAMA: normal-attenuation muscle area.

^dLAMA: low-attenuation muscle area.

^eIMAT: inter/intramuscular adipose tissue area.