Table 1.

Spearman correlations for obesity with inflammation and metabolic variables in the cohort random sample (n=650)

	BMI		Waist		Insulin
	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value
Main exposure variables
BMI			0.83	<0.01	0.55	<0.01
Waist	0.83	<0.01			0.53	<0.01
Insulin	0.55	<0.01	0.53	<0.01
Inflammation markers and adipokines
Adiponectin, in men	−0.23	<0.01	−0.25	<0.01	−0.30	<0.01
Adiponectin, in women	−0.31	<0.01	−0.29	<0.01	−0.46	<0.01
C-reactive protein	0.40	<0.01	0.36	<0.01	0.35	<0.01
IL-6	0.29	<0.01	0.32	<0.01	0.19	<0.01
Fibrinogen	0.24	<0.01	0.22	<0.01	0.20	<0.01
Orosomucoid	0.32	<0.01	0.33	<0.01	0.31	<0.01
Sialic acid	0.19	<0.01	0.16	<0.01	0.11	0.01
White blood count	0.07	<0.01	0.14	<0.01	0.10	<0.01
Complement component 3	0.43	<0.01	0.39	<0.01	0.46	0.06
Oxidized LDL	0.06	0.12	0.10	0.01	0.07	0.06
ICAM-1 (ng/mL)	0.04	0.36	0.12	<0.01	0.10	0.01
Leptin, in men	0.64	<0.01	0.65	<0.01	0.50	<0.01
Leptin, in women	0.73	<0.01	0.69	<0.01	0.65	<0.01
Other metabolic variables
Non-esterified fatty acids	0.07	0.07	0.04	0.31	−0.01	0.75
Systolic blood pressure	0.24	<0.01	0.24	<0.01	0.33	<0.01
Diastolic blood pressure	0.21	<0.01	0.20	<0.01	0.27	<0.01
Triglycerides	0.21	<0.01	0.28	<0.01	0.30	<0.01
HDL-cholesterol, in men	−0.18	0.01	−0.26	<0.01	−0.28	<0.01
HDL-cholesterol, in women	−0.28	<0.01	−0.32	<0.01	−0.36	<0.01
HOMA-IR	0.55	<0.01	0.53	<0.01	0.99	<0.01
Fasting glucose	0.26	<0.01	0.30	<0.01	0.44	<0.01