Table 2.
Spearman’s correlation coefficients between DXA-measured adiposity and other adiposity measures
| VAT area | SAAT area | TAAT area | BMI | WC | BIA % fat | DXA total % fat | DXA trunk % fat | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAT area | 1.00 | |||||||
| 740 | ||||||||
| SAAT area | 0.43 | 1.00 | ||||||
| 740 | 740 | |||||||
| TAAT area | 0.54 | 0.99 | 1.00 | |||||
| 740 | 740 | 740 | ||||||
| BMI | 0.70 | 0.74 | 0.79 | 1.00 | ||||
| 740 | 740 | 740 | 740 | |||||
| WC | 0.74 | 0.75 | 0.81 | 0.89 | 1.00 | |||
| 740 | 740 | 740 | 740 | 740 | ||||
| BIA % fat | 0.47 | 0.90 | 0.91 | 0.80 | 0.77 | 1.00 | ||
| 738 | 738 | 738 | 738 | 738 | 738 | |||
| DXA total % fat | 0.57 | 0.91 | 0.93 | 0.72 | 0.71 | 0.85 | 1.00 | |
| 740 | 740 | 740 | 740 | 740 | 738 | 740 | ||
| DXA trunk % fat | 0.61 | 0.92 | 0.94 | 0.73 | 0.74 | 0.85 | 0.98 | 1.00 |
| 740 | 740 | 740 | 740 | 740 | 738 | 740 | 740 |
Number of observations
Significant correlation for all values at p<0.0001. VAT, visceral adipose tissue; TAAT, total abdominal adipose tissue; SAAT, subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue; BMI, body mass index; WC, waist circumference; BIA, bioelectrical impedance analysis; DXA, dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry.