Lipids in Health and Disease

Table 2 Pearson’s or Spearman’s correlation coefficients (r) for VAT mass, VFV, and fat percentage assessed using DXA or QCT

From: Assessment of whole-body and regional body fat using abdominal quantitative computed tomography in Chinese women and men

	Males	Females
DXA VAT mass vs QCT VAT mass	0.92**	0.85**
DXA VFV vs QCT VFV	0.97**	0.93**
TBF% vs T12/L1%fat	0.90**	0.83**
TBF% vs L1/L2%fat	0.93**	0.76**
TBF% vs L2/L3%fat	0.91**	0.83**
TBF% vs L3/L4%fat	0.91**	0.84**
TBF% vs L4/L5%fat	0.89**	0.86**
TBF% vs L5/S1%fat	0.89**	0.88**
Android %fat vs T12/L1%fat	0.93**	0.82**
Android %fat vs L1/L2%fat	0.93**	0.79**
Android %fat vs L2/L3%fat	0.91**	0.84**
Android %fat vs L3/L4%fat	0.94**	0.87**
Android %fat vs L4/L5%fat	0.91**	0.88**
Android %fat vs L5/S1%fat	0.87**	0.89**
Gynoid %fat vs T12/L1%fat	0.66**	0.56*
Gynoid %fat vs L1/L2%fat	0.72**	0.49**
Gynoid %fat vs L2/L3%fat	0.72**	0.55**
Gynoid %fat vs L3/L4%fat	0.73**	0.56**
Gynoid %fat vs L4/L5%fat	0.73**	0.62**
Gynoid %fat vs L5/S1%fat	0.79**	0.69**

DXA dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, QCT quantitative computed tomography, VAT visceral adipose tissue, VFV visceral fat volume, TBF% total body fat percentage
^*P < 0.05, **P < 0.001. The bold data are Spearman’s correlation coefficients

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