Different Associations of Trunk and Lower-Body Fat Mass Distribution with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors between Healthy Middle-Aged Men and Women

Table 3

Bivariate correlation of %TFM and %LFM with Matsuda index, triglyceride, and adiponectin, as well as comparison of coefficients between women and men.

		rwomen	rmen	Z-statistic	value for rwomen versus rmen
Simple bivariate correlation
Matsuda index	%TFM	−0.579	−0.299	−2.241	0.025
	%LFM	0.644	0.286	2.992	0.003
Triglyceride	%TFM	0.289	0.425	−0.994	0.321
	%LFM	−0.284	−0.424	1.020	0.308
Adiponectin	%TFM	−0.397	−0.359	−0.282	0.778
	%LFM	0.365	0.358	0.051	0.959

r_women and r_men represent Pearson’s correlation coefficients in women and men. All the bivariate correlation coefficients were statistically significant ().