Table 2.

Correlations between different measures of adiposity and cardiovascular risk factors and biomarkers

	BMI		Waist circumference		DXA total fat		Leptin
	Correlation coefficient	P-value	Correlation coefficient	P-value	Correlation coefficient	P- value	Correlation coefficient	P- value
Adiposity measures
BMI	1
Waist circumference	0.91	<0.001	1
DXA total fata	0.87	<0.001	0.83	<0.001	1
Leptina	0.75	<0.001	0.7	<0.001	0.81	<0.001	1
Cardiovascular risk factors and biomarkers
Systolic BP	0.42	<0.001	0.41	<0.001	0.41	<0.001	0.35	<0.001
Diastolic BP	0.22	<0.001	0.22	<0.001	0.23	<0.001	0.21	<0.001
Total cholesterol	0.07	<0.001	0.04	0.004	0.11	<0.001	0.14	<0.001
Triglyceridesa	0.22	<0.001	0.23	<0.001	0.21	<0.001	0.26	<0.001
LDL cholesterol	0.13	<0.001	0.09	<0.001	0.18	<0.001	0.18	<0.001
HDL cholesterol	−0.28	<0.001	−0.29	<0.001	−0.28	<0.001	−0.24	<0.001
Apolipoprotein A1	−0.19	<0.001	−0.2	<0.001	−0.19	<0.001	−0.12	<0.001
Apolipoprotein B	0.18	<0.001	0.14	<0.001	0.22	<0.001	0.2	<0.001
C-reactive proteina	0.41	<0.001	0.38	<0.001	0.44	<0.001	0.41	<0.001
IL-6a	0.23	<0.001	0.23	<0.001	0.25	<0.001	0.24	<0.001
Adiponectin	−0.16	<0.001	−0.15	<0.001	−0.06	<0.001	−0.04	0.005

Values are Pearson correlation coefficients.

^aLog-transformed.