Table 2 Age, ethnicity and FM-adjusted risk factor means by sex-specific SAT tertiles within sex-specific VAT tertiles

From: Abdominal adiposity depots are correlates of adverse cardiometabolic risk factors in Caucasian and African-American adults

 

Males

Females

 

SAT tertile 1

SAT tertile 2

SAT tertile 3

P-value

SAT tertile 1

SAT tertile 2

SAT tertile 3

P-value

VAT tertile 1 (mean±s.e.m.)

 SBP (mm Hg)

119.9±2.1

119.9±1.5

116.9±2.3

0.595

116.3±2.0

116.2±1.4

112.5±2.1

0.344

 DBP (mm Hg)

75.6±1.5

73.7±1.1

73.1±1.7

0.519

74.8±1.4

73.9±0.9

73.2±1.4

0.811

 Glucose (mmol l−1)

5.3; 5.1–5.4

5.4; 5.3–5.5

5.3; 5.1–5.5

0.251

5.0; 4.9–5.1

5.1; 5.0–5.2

5.2; 5.0–5.3

0.400

 Triglyceride (mmol l−1)

0.78; 0.65–0.93

0.94; 0.83–1.06

1.08; 0.89–1.31

0.114

0.75; 0.65–0.87

0.78; 0.71–0.87

0.94; 0.81–1.10

0.127

VAT tertile 2 (mean±s.e.m.)

 SBP (mm Hg)

119.3±2.3

122.6±±1.8

123.8±2.3

0.384

122.0±1.9

119.0±1.3

119.1±1.9

0.411

 DBP (mm Hg)

76.4±1.6

79.9±1.2

80.6±1.6

0.123

76.9±1.2

76.6±0.8

76.0±1.2

0.911

 Glucose (mmol l−1)

5.6; 5.3–5.9

5.8; 5.5–6.0

5.9; 5.6–6.2

0.406

5.4; 5.2–5.6

5.5; 5.3–5.6

5.4; 5.2–5.6

0.936

 Triglyceride (mmol l−1)

1.20; 0.99–1.46

1.42; 1.22–1.64

1.49; 1.23–1.80

0.291

1.19; 1.02–1.37

1.20; 1.08–1.33

1.00; 0.86–1.16

0.145

VAT tertile 3 (mean±s.e.m.)

 SBP (mm Hg)

125.2±2.8

124.0±2.1

128.1±2.7

0.369

126.5±2.1

121.9±1.5

123.1±2.1

0.160

 DBP (mm Hg)

81.6±1.9

81.6±1.4

81.6±1.8

0.999

78.4±1.2

76.4±0.9

77.5±1.2

0.295

 Glucose (mmol l−1)

6.3; 5.7–6.9

5.8; 5.4–6.2

6.0; 5.5–6.6

0.121

6.1; 5.8–6.4

6.0; 5.7–6.2

5.6; 5.4–5.9

0.160

 Triglyceride (mmol l−1)

1.76; 1.38–2.24

1.81; 1.50–2.17

1.85; 1.46–2.34

0.961

1.36; 1.17–1.57

1.35; 1.21–1.51

1.53; 1.32–1.78

0.418

  1. Abbreviations: DBP, diastolic blood pressure; FM, total body fat mass; SAT, subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue; SBP, systolic blood pressure; VAT, visceral adipose tissue.
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