Table 2.
Principal components analysis (n 444; includes all participants with complete profile at baseline from three Central Australian Aboriginal communities)
| Component 1: ‘lipids’ | Component 2: ‘adiposity’ | Component 3: ‘dietary quality’ | Component 4: ‘habitus with inverse quality diet’ | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Height | 0·158 | 0·042 | 0·043 | 0·878 |
| Weight | 0·193 | 0·840 | 0·022 | 0·335 |
| Sum of skinfolds | −0·051 | 0·799 | 0·087 | −0·449 |
| Waist-to-hip ratio | 0·419 | 0·613 | −0·139 | 0·103 |
| Cholesterol | 0·746 | 0·152 | 0·109 | 0·057 |
| TAG | 0·777 | 0·233 | −0·049 | 0·068 |
| Homocysteine | 0·290 | −0·106 | −0·617 | 0·118 |
| Retinol | 0·691 | −0·138 | −0·236 | 0·142 |
| α-Tocopherol | 0·749 | 0·299 | 0·218 | −0·044 |
| Lutein+zeaxanthin | 0·554 | −0·064 | 0·468 | −0·372 |
| Cryptoxanthin | 0·240 | −0·109 | 0·614 | −0·509 |
| Lycopene | 0·150 | −0·051 | 0·735 | 0·307 |
| Eigenvalue | 2.91 | 1·94 | 1·66 | 1·63 |
| % of variance | 24·2 | 16·1 | 13·9 | 13·6 |
| Total variance (%) | 40·4 | 54·3 | 67·8 |
Data are loadings (correlations); values in bold font indicate variables characteristic of the respective component.