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. 2009 Sep;50(9):1917–1926. doi: 10.1194/jlr.P900033-JLR200

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.