Effect of nutritional counselling on hepatic, muscle and adipose tissue fat content and distribution in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Table 5 Relationship between changes in liver biochemistry and adiposity

Change	Hepatic fat		AST		ALT
	r	P	r	P	r	P
Body weight	0.74	0.01	0.16	0.7	0.32	0.4
Total AT	0.70	0.02	0.42	0.22	0.49	0.15
Abdominal sc AT	0.76	0.01	0.57	0.09	0.54	0.11
Peripheral sc AT	0.45	0.2	0.15	0.7	0.17	0.6
Intra-abdominal AT	0.83	0.003	0.71	0.02	0.83	0.003
Non-abdominal internal AT	0.28	0.4	0.23	0.5	0.35	0.3
hepatic fat	-	-	0.51	0.13	0.62	0.05
Soleus IMCL	0.50	0.14	0.27	0.4	0.21	0.6
Tibialis IMCL	0.53	0.12	0.42	0.22	0.56	0.09

Pearson product movement correlation coefficients (r) for the relationship between AST, ALT and hepatic fat and measures of total and regional adiposity and IMCL, performed using log transformed data. AT: Adipose tissue; IMCL: intramyocellular lipid content; Sc: Subcutaneous.