. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2010 Mar;3(3):266–274. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.10.012

Table 3.

Correlation Coefficients Between Measures of Obesity and LV Size by Sex in MESA Participants With CMR (N = 5,004)

	Women				Men
	LV Mass	LV EDV	SV	CO	LV Mass	LV EDV	SV	CO
Weight	0.60	0.54	0.50	0.43	0.51	0.38	0.33	0.30
BMI	0.52	0.41	0.39	0.36	0.42	0.22	0.20	0.22
FM	0.56	0.48	0.45	0.40	0.47	0.30	0.27	0.27
WC	0.48	0.31	0.30	0.29	0.39	0.22	0.19	0.22
WHR	0.19	−0.03	−0.004	0.05	0.15	0.01	−0.01	0.06

All these correlations are significantly different from 0 at the p < 0.001 level except for the WHR correlations. WHR was significantly correlated with LV mass and cardiac output.

CO = cardiac output; EDV = end-diastolic volume; SV = stroke volume; other abbreviations as in Tables 1 and 2.