Table 1.
Baseline clinical and metabolic characteristics of study subjects.
Table 2.
Body composition characteristics of study subjects at baseline and after 2 years.
Figure 1.
Relationship between baseline visceral fat area and changes in appendicular lean soft tissue mass and vice versa.
Scatter plot of baseline visceral fat area (cm2) against change in appendicular soft tissue mass (kg) (A) and vice versa (B).
Figure 2.
Changes in appendicular lean soft tissue mass in participants classified on the basis of visceral obesity (A) and changes in visceral fat area according to the presence of sarcopenia (B) in men and women.
The box plot display the 25th, median and 75th percentiles and the minimum and maximum levels as horizontal lines outside the box.
Table 3.
Independent associations of changes in the appendicular lean soft tissue (ALST) mass and visceral fat area (VFA) and baseline clinical, metabolic and body composition parameters during the 2-year follow-up period according to multiple linear regression analyses.