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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 May;21(5):1070–1075. doi: 10.1002/oby.20151

Table 2.

Correlations among adiposity variables at baseline among participants in the Pennington Center Longitudinal Study.

BMI Waist
Circumference		 BAI WHtR WHR
BMI 0.86 0.79 0.91 0.41
Waist Circumference 0.86 0.52 0.95 0.75
BAI 0.83 0.60 0.71 −0.05
WHtR 0.92 0.95 0.76 0.65
WHR 0.27 0.55 −0.10 0.48

Correlations above the diagonal are among whites, and correlations below the diagonal are among African Americans.

BMI: body mass index; BAI: body adiposity index; WHtR: waist circumference to height ratio; WHR: waist to hip circumference ratio.

All correlations are significant at p<0.05.