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Published in final edited form as: Public Health Nutr. 2011 May 24;14(10):1714–1723. doi: 10.1017/S1368980011000796

Table 3.

Partial Pearson’s correlations of cardiometabolic risk factors and obesity indices (controlling for age and sex)

Obesity index	SBP	DBP	HDL-C	TC:HDL-C	LDL-C	TAG	FG	HbA1c	hs-CRP	Fibrinogen	PAI-1
WC	0·27^***	0·36^***	−0·24^***	0·27^***	0·11^*	0·17^**	0·27^***	0·25^***	0·23^***	0·19^***	0·12^*
WHR	0·17^***	0·18^***	−0·19^***	0·26^***	0·11^	0·21^***	0·29^***	0·28^***	0·15^***	0·13^***	0·13^***
BMI	0·26^***	0·35^***	−0·18^**	0·21^***	0·10^*	0·13^***	0·22^***	0·20^***	0·24^***	0·17^***	0·09
WHtR	0·25^***	0·34^***	−0·23^***	0·26^***	0·12^	0·18^**	0·28^***	0·26^***	0·24^***	0·19^***	0·12^*

SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; HDL-C, HDL cholesterol; TC, total cholesterol; LDL-C, LDL cholesterol; FG, fasting blood glucose; HbAtc, glycosylated Hb; hs-CRP, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein; PAI-1, plasminogen activator inhibitor; WC, waist circumference; WHR, waist-to-hip ratio; WHtR, waist-to-height ratio.

P<0·05

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P<0·001.