Table 2.

In men, differences in the slopes (±S.E.) for percentiles of the triglyceride distribution (dependent variable) vs. body mass index and circumferences of the waist, hip and chest.

	Body mass index (BMI) (mmol/L per kg/m2)	Body circumferences (mmol/L per m)
		Waist	Hip	Chest
95% vs.
90%	0.043 ±0.014‡	0.889 ±0.526	0.436 ±0.640	0.027 ±0.227
75%	0.086 ±0.016‡	1.629 ±0.661†	0.763 ±0.787	0.214 ±0.282
50%	0.131 ±0.017‡	3.308 ±0.695‡	1.484 ±0.829	0.428 ±0.301
25%	0.155 ±0.017‡	4.011 ±0.706‡	1.636 ±0.844*	0.794 ±0.312*
10%	0.167 ±0.018‡	4.392 ±0.709‡	1.534 ±0.859	0.912 ±0.331†
5%	0.174 ±0.018‡	4.488 ±0.715‡	1.561 ±0.851	1.182 ±0.349‡
90% vs.
75%	0.044 ±0.013‡	0.740 ±0.394*	0.327 ±0.515	0.188 ±0.168
50%	0.088 ±0.015‡	2.420 ±0.435‡	1.048 ±0.583	0.401 ±0.196*
25%	0.112 ±0.015‡	3.122 ±0.452‡	1.200 ±0.604*	0.768 ±0.212‡
10%	0.124 ±0.015‡	3.503 ±0.457‡	1.098 ±0.623	0.886 ±0.238‡
5%	0.132 ±0.016‡	3.600 ±0.464‡	1.125 ±0.616	1.155 ±0.261‡
75% vs.
50%	0.045 ±0.006‡	1.680 ±0.287‡	0.721 ±0.216†	0.214 ±0.142
25%	0.069 ±0.007‡	2.382 ±0.323‡	0.873 ±0.253†	0.580 ±0.172‡
10%	0.081 ±0.007‡	2.763 ±0.335‡	0.771 ±0.291†	0.698 ±0.204‡
5%	0.088 ±0.007‡	2.860 ±0.345‡	0.798 ±0.270†	0.967 ±0.232‡
50% vs.
25%	0.024 ±0.003‡	0.702 ±0.140‡	0.152 ±0.140	0.366 ±0.129†
10%	0.036 ±0.004‡	1.084 ±0.157‡	0.050 ±0.202	0.484 ±0.174†
5%	0.043 ±0.005‡	1.180 ±0.176‡	0.077 ±0.170	0.754 ±0.207‡
25% vs.
10%	0.012 ±0.003‡	0.381 ±0.115‡	-0.102 ±0.157	0.118 ±0.147
5%	0.020 ±0.004‡	0.478 ±0.141‡	-0.075 ±0.136	0.388 ±0.187*
10% vs.
5%	0.008 ±0.003†	0.096 ±0.096	0.027 ±0.162	0.269 ±0.158

Results from 10,000 bootstrap samples. Significance levels for the differences between two regression slopes are coded:

^*P < 0.05;

^†< 0.01,

^‡< 0.001.