TABLE 2.
Intrapair MZA and MZT correlations
| MZA |
MZT |
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| na | Intrapair Correlation (95% CI) | na | Intrapair Correlation (95% CI) | |
| Weightb | 29 | 0.78 (0.59, 0.89) | 49 | 0.86 (0.76, 0.92) |
| Height | 29 | 0.96 (0.92, 0.98) | 49 | 0.94 (0.90, 0.97) |
| BMIb | 29 | 0.65 (0.38, 0.82) | 49 | 0.80 (0.66, 0.88) |
| WCc | 29 | 0.78 (0.59, 0.89) | 49 | 0.80 (0.67, 0.88) |
| SBPb | 28 | f | 49 | 0.73 (0.56, 0.84) |
| DBP | 28 | 0.59 (0.29, 0.79) | 49 | 0.62 (0.41, 0.76) |
| FGb | 29 | 0.62 (0.34, 0.80) | 49 | 0.57 (0.35, 0.74) |
| FIb | 21 | 0.61 (0.27, 0.82) | 44 | 0.46 (0.20, 0.67) |
| HOMA-IRb | 21 | 0.64 (0.31, 0.84) | 44 | 0.56 (0.32, 0.73) |
| TCb | 26 | 0.82 (0.64, 0.91) | 48 | 0.82 (0.71, 0.90) |
| VLDLb | 26 | 0.71 (0.45, 0.86) | 48 | 0.70 (0.52, 0.82) |
| LDLb | 26 | 0.85 (0.69, 0.93) | 48 | 0.81 (0.68, 0.89) |
| HDL | 26 | 0.59 (0.28, 0.79) | 48 | 0.74 (0.58, 0.84) |
| TGb | 26 | 0.71 (0.45, 0.86) | 48 | 0.70 (0.53, 0.82) |
BMI, body mass index; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; FG, fasting plasma glucose; FI, fasting plasma insulin; HDL, fasting plasma HDL; HOMA-IR, homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance; LDL, fasting plasma LDL; MZA, monozygotic twins reared apart; MZT, monozygotic twins reared together; SBP, systolic blood pressure; TC, fasting plasma total cholesterol; TG, fasting plasma triglycerides; VLDL, fasting plasma VLDL; WC, waist circumference.
a
n, number of twin pairs.
b
Variable was transformed by multiplying the natural log of the variable by 100.
c
Variable was transformed by a Blom transformation.