Table 3.

Pearson's Correlation Coefficients between Measures of Body Composition and Serum Parameters

Sex BW AFW AFP MW LW KW SW Leptin Insulin IGF-I
BWmale1 0.75 0.57 0.84 0.88 0.77 0.16** 0.52 0.57 0.31
female1
AFWmale 0.76 1 0.95 0.61 0.57 0.50 (−0.02) 0.69 0.49 0.28
female 0.74 1
AFPmale 0.64 0.96 1 0.49 0.39 0.35 (−0.08) 0.67 0.39 0.23
female 0.58 0.97 1
MWmale 0.80 0.58 0.53 1 0.72 0.74 (0.00) 0.34 0.49 0.19
female 0.81 0.60 0.48 1
LWmale 0.88 0.62 0.50 0.69 1 0.75 0.22 0.37 0.58 0.27
female 0.74 0.42 0.28 0.50 1
KWmale 0.69 0.47 0.40 0.69 0.64 10.11* 0.26 0.51 0.24
female 0.81 0.55 0.42 0.70 0.72 1
SWmale0.18** (−0.08)−0.15* (−0.06) 0.26 (0.08)1(0.03)0.11* (0.02)
female(0.03)(−0.03)(−0.04)(−0.10)(0.08)(−0.02)1
Leptinmale 0.53 0.69 0.69 0.28 0.39 0.18** (0.00)1 0.46 0.17
female 0.49 0.67 0.66 0.36 0.27 0.33 (−0.05)1
Insulinmale 0.47 0.51 0.50 0.36 0.46 0.32 (−0.05) 0.53 1(0.06)
female 0.37 0.33 0.28*** 0.34 0.28*** 0.38 (0.07) 0.28 1
IGF-Imale 0.35 0.31 0.27 0.21** 0.33 0.28 (0.01)0.17* (0.03)1
female0.26*** 0.21** 0.17* 0.15* 0.21** 0.24** (0.01)(0.12)(0.08)1

[i] BW, body weight; AFW, abdominal fat weight; AFP, abdominal fat percentage; MW, weight of quadriceps (musculus rectus femulus, m. vastus intermedius, m. vastus lateralis, m. vastus medialis); LW, liver weight; KW, kidney weight; SW, spleen weight. Values above the diagonal are for correlation over both sexes together; values below the diagonal are for males and females separately. Bold values are significant atP < 0.0001. Asterisks mark different levels of significance: *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, ***P < 0.001. Values in parentheses are not significant.