Table 4.

C-Reactive Protein and Leptin

	Spearman correlation
					Two-way analysis of variance
Variable	n	r1 versus Percent total body fat	r2 versus truncal fat to lower body fat ratio	P value (r1 vs. r2)	ANOVA factor	ANOVA p value
CRP (men)	1128	0.29	0.11	<0.0001	%Total body fat	<0.0001
					T/L ratio	0.08
					Interactiona	0.85
CRP (women)	1438	0.53	0.30	<0.0001	%Total body fat	<0.0001
					T/L ratio	<0.0001
					Interactiona	0.02
Leptin (men)	1137	0.79	0.23	<0.0001	%Total body fat	<0.0001
					T/L ratio	0.13
					Interactiona	0.20
Leptin (women)	1438	0.81	0.28	<0.0001	%Total body fat	<0.0001
					T/L ratio	0.49
					Interactiona	0.003

^aInteraction between % body fat and truncal-to-lower body fat (T/L) ratio.

Note: CRP, C-reactive protein.