Pericardial Fat Relates to Disturbances of Glucose Metabolism in Women with the Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, but Not in Healthy Control Subjects

Table 2

Correlation analyses of pericardial fat (PERI) with parameters and indices of glucose metabolism in women with PCOS and healthy control subjects.

PERI	PCOS total		PCOS-NIH		PCOS-ROT		Controls
	Rho		Rho		Rho		Rho
Disposition index (IGIISI)	−0.346	0.027	−0.295	0.162	−0.453	0.068	0.403	0.087
OGIS	−0.389	0.012	−0.359	0.085	−0.471	0.057	−0.192	0.432
Matsuda index	−0.242	0.132	−0.124	0.574	−0.360	0.155	0.264	0.274
HOMA-IR	0.273	0.076	0.197	0.334	0.311	0.224	−0.268	0.254
Insulinogenic index	−0.129	0.409	−0.138	0.502	−0.108	0.680	0.010	0.967
HbA1c	0.486	0.001	0.573	0.003	0.442	0.076	−0.384	0.095
Fasting plasma glucose	0.682	<0.001	0.737	<0.001	0.630	0.007	0.128	0.591
Glucose 30	0.449	0.003	0.441	0.024	0.469	0.058	−0.238	0.313
Glucose 60	0.505	0.001	0.596	0.001	0.363	0.152	0.052	0.828
Glucose 90	0.389	0.012	0.448	0.028	0.305	0.234	−0.187	0.444
Glucose 120	0.377	0.013	0.389	0.050	0.241	0.352	−0.094	0.693
Insulin 0	0.193	0.214	0.112	0.587	0.262	0.309	−0.269	0.252
Insulin 60	0.306	0.046	0.260	0.199	0.365	0.149	0.182	0.442
C-peptide 0	0.206	0.185	0.021	0.919	0.395	0.117	−0.223	0.345