TABLE 2.

Age-adjusted partial correlations in measures of adiposity and cardiometabolic risk factors¹

	SBP	DBP	Glucose	Triglycerides	HDL cholesterol	Continuous MetS score
White women
Visceral adipose tissue	0.24	0.19	0.40	0.41	−0.43	0.55
BMI	0.23	0.23	0.32	0.28	−0.34	0.46
Waist circumference	0.20	0.19	0.36	0.26	−0.41	0.49
Fat mass	0.21	0.20	0.26	0.26	−0.30	0.40
Percentage of body fat	0.18	0.16	0.20	0.21	−0.19	0.31
African American women
Visceral adipose tissue	0.062	0.112	0.38	0.35	−0.29	0.36
BMI	0.15	0.18	0.23	0.26	−0.28	0.37
Waist circumference	0.15	0.20	0.32	0.36	−0.34	0.44
Fat mass	0.14	0.18	0.22	0.26	−0.24	0.34
Percentage of body fat	0.092	0.14	0.18	0.18	−0.19	0.25
White men
Visceral adipose tissue	0.17	0.21	0.24	0.36	−0.27	0.43
BMI	0.21	0.25	0.18	0.26	−0.29	0.37
Waist circumference	0.18	0.25	0.20	0.27	−0.30	0.37
Fat mass	0.16	0.25	0.18	0.25	−0.26	0.32
Percentage of body fat	0.13	0.24	0.14	0.24	−0.23	0.28
African American men
Visceral adipose tissue	0.192	0.38	0.23	0.49	−0.34	0.59
BMI	0.32	0.42	0.162	0.42	−0.40	0.59
Waist circumference	0.28	0.42	0.182	0.40	−0.43	0.60
Fat mass	0.29	0.42	0.172	0.38	−0.37	0.56
Percentage of body fat	0.22	0.44	0.152	0.35	−0.35	0.52

¹DBP, diastolic blood pressure; MetS Score, metabolic syndrome score derived from principal components analysis; SBP, systolic blood pressure.

²All correlations were significant (P < 0.05) with the exception of those indicated.