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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2013 Jan 19;111(7):991–995. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.12.022

Table 2.

The Correlation between Obesity and Fitness

Correlation Coefficient Males Females
ρ Stage and BMI − 0.423 − 0.390
ρ Stage and waist size − 0.503 − 0.401
ρ Stage and obesity − 0.376 − 0.307

All individual correlation coefficients were significant at p <0.0001.

For men and women, respectively, n=2035 and 541 for BMI and obesity and n=2034 and 540 for waist size.