Distribution of Abdominal Obesity and Fitness Level in Overweight and Obese Korean Adults

Table 2

Correlation coefficients between fitness level (recovery heart rate) and cardiometabolic characteristics and abdominal adiposity (VAT, SAT, and the VAT/SAT ratio).

	VAT	SAT	VAT/SAT ratio
Waist (cm)	0.273**	0.640**	0.008
Waist-to-hip ratio	0.230**	0.159*	0.110
Mean BP (mmHg)	−0.054	−0.006	0.005
Physical activity (MET-h/week)	−0.027	0.013	0.015
Fasting glucose (mg/dL)	0.009	0.005	−0.031
Fasting insulin (μU/mL)	0.115**	0.018	0.128
HOMA-IR	0.102**	0.003	0.109
Cholesterol (mg/dL)	0.083	0.111	0.019
Triglyceride (mg/dL)	0.104*	0.034	0.145*
LDL (mg/dL)	0.054	0.067	0.017
HDL (mg/dL)	−0.040	−0.202	−0.197**
hsCRP (mg/L)	−0.074	0.007	−0.076
Recovery heart rate	0.232**	0.045	0.214**

VAT: visceral adipose tissue; SAT: subcutaneous adipose tissue; VAT/SAT ratio: visceral-to-subcutaneous adipose tissue ratio; BMI: body mass index; BP: blood pressure; MET-h/week: metabolic equivalents-hour per week; HOMA-IR: homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance; LDL: low-density lipoprotein; HDL: high-density lipoprotein; hsCRP: highly sensitive C-reactive protein.
^∗𝑃<0.05, ^∗∗𝑃<0.01, calculated by Pearson’s partial correlation adjusted for age, sex, and BMI.