Table 2 HRs (95% CIs)a for all-cause mortality associated with abdominal VAT and SAT in white participants from the PCLS

From: Abdominal obesity and mortality: The Pennington Center Longitudinal Study

 

SAT

VAT

Model 1

—

1.46 (1.05–2.05)

Model 2

0.87 (0.55–1.40)

—

Model 3

0.61 (0.35–1.06)

1.72 (1.20–2.47)

Model 4

0.61 (0.34–1.08)

1.74 (1.17–2.59)

Model 5

0.59 (0.33–1.07)

1.62 (1.07–2.47)

  1. Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; HR, hazard ratio; PCLS, Pennington Center Longitudinal Study; SAT, subcutaneous adipose tissue; VAT, visceral adipose tissue.
  2. Model 1: VAT in model; including age, sex and exam year as covariates.
  3. Model 2: SAT in model; including age, sex and exam year as covariates.
  4. Model 3: SAT and VAT in model; including age, sex and exam year as covariates.
  5. Model 4: SAT and VAT in model; including age, sex, exam year, smoking, alcohol consumption and physical activity as covariates.
  6. Model 5: SAT and VAT in model; excluding participants with a history of stroke, heart disease and cancer at baseline and including age, sex, exam year, smoking, alcohol consumption and physical activity as covariates.
  7. aHRs are expressed per s.d. of the exposure variable (70.1 cm2 for VAT and 151 cm2 for SAT).
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