Association between skeletal muscle mass to visceral fat area ratio and arterial stiffness in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Table 2 age and gender adjusted spearman’s correlations between SVR, ASM, ASM/height2 and VFA and other variables

	SVR adjusted for age and gender		ASM adjusted for age and gender		ASM/height2 adjusted for age and gender		VFA adjusted for age and gender
	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	p
BMI	−0.169	0.003	0.534	0.000	−0.047	0.412	0.687	0.000
Waist	−0.119	0.036	0.414	0.000	0.253	0.000	0.565	0.000
SBP	−0.071	0.216	0.057	0.315	0.016	0.784	0.105	0.066
DBP	−0.132	0.021	0.058	0.306	0.015	0.800	0.154	0.007
TC	−0.076	0.185	0.02	0.723	−0.043	0.452	0.015	0.789
TG	0.001	0.989	0.159	0.005	0.065	0.257	0.016	0.778
HDL-C	−0.005	0.925	−0.120	0.035	−0.106	0.064	−0.134	0.019
LDL-C	−0.087	0.126	−0.047	0.411	−0.063	0.270	0.033	0.567
Uric	0.021	0.710	0.147	0.01	0.180	0.002	0.161	0.005
HbA1c	0.047	0.411	−0.121	0.033	−0.078	0.172	−0.123	0.031
baPWV	−0.129	0.024	−0.104	0.049	−0.047	0.412	0.130	0.020

Abbreviations: SVR skeletal muscle mass to visceral fat area ratio, ASM appendicular skeletal muscle, VFA visceral fat area, BMI body mass index, SBP systolic blood pressure, DBP diastolic blood pressure, TC total cholesterol, TG triglyceride, HDL-C high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL-C low-density lipoprotein cholesterol

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