Table 1.

Correlational analysis between demographic and body anthropometry and variables of interest.

Variable	Age	Height	Weight	BMI	Ethnicity
SOS	-0.283**	-0.024	0.065	0.076*	-0.095*
TSH	0.152**	0.015	0.062	0.052	0.064
FT4	-0.192**	0.012	-0.063	-0.074	-0.069
FT3	-0.271**	0.072	0.108**	0.087*	-0.007

Abbr: SOS=speed of sound; TSH= thyroid stimulating hormone; FT3=free tri-iodothyronine; FT4=free thyroxine. *indicates significance value of p<0.05 and ** indicates p<0.001.