Relationship of Para and Perirenal Fat and High-Density Lipoprotein and Its Function in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Table 2

Correlations between para-perirenal ultrasonographic fat thickness and anthropometric parameters with HDL level and cholesterol efflux rate in the whole population.

	HDL level (mmol/l)		Cholesterol efflux rate (%)
	r		r
Age (years)	0.20	0.14	−0.12	0.39
Course of diabetes (years)	0.07	0.61	−0.25	0.06
BMI (kg/m^2)	−0.34	0.01	0.23	0.09
WHR	−0.14	0.31	0.34	<0.01
VAT (cm^2)	−0.24	0.10	0.31	0.03
PUFT (cm)	−0.42	<0.01	0.43	<0.01

BMI, body mass index; WHR, waist-to-hip ratio; VAT, visceral fat tissue; PUFT, para-perirenal ultrasonographic fat thickness; HDL, high-density lipoprotein.