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

Table 5 Correlation Coefficients for Mitochondrial Measures and Glucose/Insulin for All Participants and Split by Gender

	Both Genders				Female			Male
	Pearson	Partial (BMI)	Partial (BMI + gender)	Partial (BMI + gender + age)	Pearson	Partial (BMI)	Partial (BMI + age)	Pearson	Partial (BMI)	Partial (BMI + age)
Citrate Synthase Associations
HOMA-IR^a	0.21	0.57**	0.55*	0.58**	0.08	0.62*	0.61	0.26	0.46	0.53
Insulin (mIU/L)^a	0.20	0.66***	0.63**	0.60**	0.09	0.71*	0.63	0.25	0.49	0.51
Glucose (mmol/L)	0.19	0.31	0.25	0.34	0.09	0.58	0.61	0.18	0.05	0.44
State 3 OCR Associations
HOMA-IR^a	−0.19	−0.27	−0.32	−0.12	−0.53	−0.45	−0.39	−0.08	−0.05	0.20
Insulin (mIU/L)^a	−0.19	−0.24	−0.31	−0.13	−0.51	−0.43	−0.39	0.08	0.00	0.19
Glucose (mmol/L)	−0.07	−0.22	−0.30	−0.02	−0.35	−0.22	−0.17	−0.05	−0.58	0.14
State 4o OCR Associations
HOMA-IR^a	−0.27	−0.39	−0.39	−0.16	−0.54	−0.53	−0.45	−0.06	−0.21	0.10
Insulin (mIU/L)^a	−0.27	−0.36	−0.36	−0.16	−0.52	−0.52	−0.46	−0.05	−0.15	0.10
Glucose (mmol/L)	−0.21	−0.38	−0.38	−0.07	−0.33	−0.26	−0.18	−0.20	−0.72*	0.01

BMI body mass index, HOMA-IR homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance, OCR oxygen consumption rate
^aVariables were square-root-transformed to achieve normal distribution
* = p ≤ 0.05, ** = p ≤ 0.01, *** = p ≤ 0.001
Females: N = 12, Males: N = 11-13

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