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Table 2.

Correlation between key biometric ratios and male AR. (^**Pearson correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (two-tailed); ^*Pearson correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (two-tailed).)

	ARF	ARM	BMI	VHI	WCR	WHR	SHC	Abs(WHR−0.8)
ARF	1	0.934^**	−0.547^**	−0.796^**	−0.738^**	−0.671^**	0.090	−0.704^**
	—	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.389	0.000
ARM	0.934^**	1	−0.402^**	−0.754^**	−0.712^**	−0.698^**	0.061	−0.767^**
	0.000	—	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.563	0.000
BMI	−0.547^**	−0.402^**	1	0.650^**	0.506^**	0.466^**	−0.204	0.324^**
	0.000	0.000	—	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.052	0.002
VHI	−0.796^**	−0.754^**	0.650^**	1	0.735^**	0.746^**	−0.219^*	0.680^**
	0.000	0.000	0.000	—	0.000	0.000	−0.036	0.000
WCR	−0.738^**	−0.712^**	0.506^**	0.735^**	1	0.790^**	−0.418^**	0.600^**
	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	—	0.000	0.000	0.000
WHR	−0.671^**	−0.698^**	0.466^**	0.746^**	0.790^**	1	−0.406^**	0.778^**
	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.000	—	0.000	0.000
SHC	0.090	0.061	−0.204	−0.219^*	−0.418^**	−0.406^**	1	−0.030
	0.389	0.563	0.052	0.036	0.000	0.000	—	0.771
abs(WHR–0.8)	−0.704^**	−0.767^**	0.324^**	0.680^**	0.600^**	0.778^**	−0.030	1
	0.000	0.000	0.002	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.771	—