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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 13.
Published in final edited form as: Med Sci Sports Exerc. 2010 Aug;42(8):1502–1510. doi: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e3181d322c4

TABLE 4.

P values of BMI and fitness categories in relation to cardiometabolic disease risk factors adjusting for race, household education level, and pubertal stage (males n = 2341, females n = 2614).

BMI + Fitness Together Model
BMI-Only Model
Fitness-Only Model
BMI
Fitness
Cardiometabolic Risk Factor Gender P F AIC P F AIC P F P F AIC
Waist circumference (cm) Male <0.0001 2617.27 16,740.6 <0.0001 221.90 18,738.2 <0.0001 1740.29 <0.0001 33.50 16,607.9
Female <0.0001 3594.83 17,592.3 <0.0001 214.59 20,297.2 <0.0001 2579.28 <0.0001 36.33 17,450.9
Total cholesterol (mg·dL–1) Male <0.0001 30.21 22,097.0 <0.0001 9.42 22,113.1 <0.0001 15.13 0.0926 2.00 22,077.7
Female 0.0002 8.47 24,422.2 0.0071 3.53 24,419.3 0.0144 4.25 0.2207 1.43 24,406.0
HDL-cholesterol (mg·dL–1) Male <0.0001 253.71 17,851.7 <0.0001 42.36 18,143.7 <0.0001 160.83 0.1170 1.85 17,840.3
Female <0.0001 247.81 19,830.2 <0.0001 31.97 20,155.9 <0.0001 176.65 0.3796 1.05 19,822.7
LDL-cholesterol (mg·dL–1) Male <0.0001 67.20 21,218.3 <0.0001 19.14 21,268.1 <0.0001 34.88 0.0077 3.48 21,194.7
Female <0.0001 32.65 23,580.1 <0.0001 8.47 23,605.8 <0.0001 19.37 0.0985 1.96 23,563.2
Triglycerides (mg·dL–1)a Male <0.0001 286.42 2830.9 <0.0001 43.70 3185.2 <0.0001 188.38 0.3552 1.10 2848.3
Female <0.0001 193.20 2894.5 <0.0001 30.44 3146.5 <0.0001 132.80 0.0136 3.15 2904.5
SBP (mm Hg) Male <0.0001 84.23 17,269.5 0.1753 1.59 17,423.8 <0.0001 94.01 <0.0001 6.17 17,242.0
Female <0.0001 47.61 19,112.7 0.2861 1.25 19,199.5 <0.0001 49.36 0.0765 2.11 19,102.0
DBP (mm Hg) Male <0.0001 145.97 16,513.2 <0.0001 24.39 16,691.9 <0.0001 95.16 0.5118 0.82 16,508.3
Female <0.0001 111.24 18,412.7 <0.0001 21.85 18,539.2 <0.0001 70.50 0.0382 2.54 18,401.3
Glucose (mg·dL–1) Male 0.0003 8.22 15,355.0 0.1177 1.84 15,363.8 0.0034 5.70 0.6638 0.60 15,352.9
Female <0.0001 14.57 17,140.4 0.0660 2.21 17,160.6 <0.0001 11.10 0.7367 0.50 17,139.2
Insulin (μU·mL–1)a Male <0.0001 763.39 3668.6 <0.0001 104.69 4467.5 <0.0001 489.21 <0.0001 7.35 3659.6
Female <0.0001 700.80 3842.8 <0.0001 83.87 4656.6 <0.0001 486.34 <0.0001 6.50 3838.4
a

Variables were log-transformed for analysis.