Nutrition & Diabetes

Table 3 Age, ethnicity and FM-adjusted risk factor percentages 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 (%)
High BP^a	14.0	19.6	21.4	0.581	19.5	19.3	7.4	0.043
High glucose^b	12.3	33.9	33.9	0.008	7.3	12.1	12.4	0.515
High triglycerides^c	5.3	10.7	10.7	0.499	3.7	7.2	8.6	0.449
Low HDL-C^d	10.5	17.9	25.0	0.138	11.0	20.5	22.2	0.122
2+ Risk factors^e	7.0	25.0	30.4	0.003	6.1	15.7	32.1	<0.001
VAT tertile 2 (%)
High BP^a	22.8	33.9	46.4	0.031	30.5	33.7	35.4	0.811
High glucose^b	61.4	53.6	58.9	0.700	34.2	34.9	28.1	0.598
High triglycerides^c	31.6	46.4	39.3	0.288	23.2	28.9	20.7	0.486
Low HDL-C^d	19.3	30.4	30.4	0.290	18.3	28.9	34.2	0.060
2+ Risk factors^e	42.1	67.9	80.4	<0.001	40.2	55.4	70.7	<0.001
VAT tertile 3 (%)
High BP^a	48.2	51.8	58.9	0.556	51.9	42.9	50.0	0.475
High glucose^b	62.5	51.8	57.1	0.539	58.0	64.3	57.3	0.608
High triglycerides^c	66.1	60.7	55.4	0.531	48.2	41.7	45.1	0.715
Low HDL-C^d	30.4	37.5	37.5	0.681	30.9	38.1	51.2	0.028
2+ Risk factors^e	85.7	96.4	96.4	0.058	74.1	84.5	89.0	0.041

Abbreviations: BP, blood pressure; FM, total body fat mass; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; SAT, subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue; VAT, visceral adipose tissue.
^aHigh BP defined as SBP ⩾130 mm Hg and DBP ⩾85 mm Hg.
^bHigh glucose defined as ⩾100 mg dl⁻¹ (5.55 mmol l⁻¹).
^cHigh triglycerides defined as ⩾150 mg dl⁻¹ (1.70 mmol l⁻¹).
^dLow HDL-C defined as <40 mg dl⁻¹ (1.04 mmol l⁻¹) for males and <50 mg dl⁻¹ (1.3 mmol l⁻¹) for females.
^e2+ Risk factors defined as two or more of high BP, high glucose, high triglycerides or low HDL-C.

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