Relationships between mitochondrial content and bioenergetics with obesity, body composition and fat distribution in healthy older adults

Table 2 Citrate Synthase Activity Correlation Coefficients with Obesity and Total and Thigh Body Composition and Body Fat Distribution for All Participants and Split by Gender

	Both Genders				Female			Males
	Pearson	Partial (BMI)	Partial (BMI + gender)	Partial (BMI + gender + age)	Pearson	Partial (BMI)	Partial (BMI + age)	Pearson	Partial (BMI)	Partial (BMI + age)
BMI (kg/m2)	−0.43*	n/a	n/a	n/a	−0.57	n/a	n/a	−0.41	n/a	n/a
Waist Circumference (cm)	−0.30	0.20	0.07	0.21	−0.44	0.19	0.06	−0.40	−0.40	0.06
Waist/Hip ratio	−0.07	0.15	0.10	0.17	−0.11	0.10	−0.03	−0.24	0.29	0.45
Total Fat Mass (kg)	−0.62**	−0.50*	−0.41	−0.41	−0.59*	−0.18	−0.16	−0.68*	−0.88**	−0.87*
Total Lean Mass^a (kg)	−0.01	0.43*	0.37	0.35	−0.32	0.41	0.46	−0.08	0.34	0.17
Percent Fat Mass	−0.62**	−0.48*	−0.47*	−0.47*	−0.57	−0.15	−0.16	−0.83**	−0.88**	−0.84**
Leg Fat Mass to Total Fat Mass ratio	−0.161	−0.64**	−0.59**	−0.60**	0.01	−0.75**	−0.76*	−0.31	−0.46	−0.53
Thigh Fat Volume (cm3)	−0.76***	−0.71***	−0.80***	−0.71***	−0.80**	−0.77**	−0.81**	−0.68*	−0.84**	−0.56
Thigh Subcutaneous Fat (cm3)	−0.76***	−0.72***	−0.81***	−0.72***	−0.82***	−0.80**	−0.83**	−0.67*	−0.82**	−0.55
Thigh Intermuscular Fat (cm3)	−0.48*	−0.24	−0.15	−0.11	−0.46	−0.07	−0.30	−0.51	−0.29	0.10
Total Thigh Muscle (cm3)	0.20	0.53*	0.52*	0.53*	−0.18	0.56	0.56	0.37	0.53	0.30
Thigh Intermuscular Fat/Total Thigh Fat Ratio	−0.18	0.10	0.07	0.11	−0.13	0.28	0.17	−0.33	−0.06	0.22

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