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Table 2.

Correlation between inflammatory markers and anthropometric/ biochemical variables among subjects with and without abdominal obesity

	Hcy				Hs-CRP				IL-6

Variables	AB		n AB		AB		n AB		AB		n AB

	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P

Sex	-0.211	0.003^*	-0.227	0.005^*	0.168	0.018^*	0.112	0.169	0.087	0.221	0.092	0.258
Age	-0.007	0.926	0.148	0.068	0.070	0.329	0.346	0.000^*	0.105	0.140	0.018	0.827
Height	0.200	0.005^*	-0.111	0.177	-0.181	0.010^*	-0.209	0.010^*	-0.139	0.050	-0.035	0.665
Weight	0.081	0.256	-0.020	0.806	0.480	0.505	0.112	0.169	-0.010	0.890	-0.097	0.232
BMI	-0.107	0.133	-0.117	0.149	0.204	0.004^*	0.288	0.000^*	0.137	0.053	-0.061	0.452
WC	-0.007	0.918	-0.015	0.849	0.175	0.014^*	0.312	0.000^*	0.088	0.214	0.056	0.493
Hip	-0.072	0.310	-0.209	0.010^*	0.163	0.022^*	0.239	0.003^*	0.111	0.120	0.054	0.511
Wrist	0.225	0.001^*	0.159	0.490	-0.139	0.050	0.094	0.247	-0.065	0.358	-0.126	0.121
WHR	0.010	0.161	0.152	0.060	0.004	0.959	0.166	0.040^*	-0.043	0.545	0.020	0.803
WHtR	-0.123	0.085	-0.063	0.442	0.233	0.001^*	0.366	0.000^*	0.154	0.030^*	0.068	0.406
FBS	-0.114	0.109	0.105	0.198	0.174	0.014^*	0.069	0.396	0.123	0.084	-0.146	0.071
TG^†	-0.103	0.149	0.068	0.436	0.051	0.473	0.284	0.000^*	-0.054	0.452	-0.034	0.673
TC	0.099	0.163	0.085	0.297	0.150	0.035^*	0.403	0.000^*	0.002	0.980	-0.032	0.694
HDL-C	-0.155	0.028^*	-0.033	0.683	-0.009	0.897	0.109	0.181	0.064	0.372	0.078	0.335
LDL-C	-0.006	0.930	0.750	0.359	0.156	0.029^*	0.345	0.000^*	0.013	0.859	-0.056	0.489
TG/HDL-C	0.080	0.260	0.069	0.395	0.004	0.952	-0.004	0.962	-0.048	0.497	-0.082	0.316
TC/HDL-C	0.049	0.491	0.109	0.182	0.098	0.167	0.229	0.004^*	-0.037	0.605	-0.094	0.247
LDL-C/HDL-C	0.118	0.099	0.098	0.226	0.115	0.110	0.220	0.006^*	-0.028	0.696	-0.105	0.197
SBP	0.002	0.975	0.091	0.270	-0.004	0.958	0.190	0.020^*	0.123	0.085	0.007	0.932
DBP^†	0.005	0.947	0.470	0.566	-0.056	0.433	0.297	0.001^*	0.081	0.262	-0.099	0.227
Hcy^†	-	-	-	-	0.158	0.414	0.021	0.797	-0.007	0.921	-0.103	0.207
hsCRP^†	0.058	0.414	0.210	0.797	-	-	-	-	0.157	0.026^*	0.014	0.859
IL6^†	-0.007	0.921	-0.103	0.207	0.157	0.026^*	0.014	0.859	-	-	-	-

Hcy: Homocystein; hs-CRP: C-reactive protein; IL-6: Interleukin-6; AB: Abdominal obesity; nAB: without abdominal obesity; BMI: Body mass index; WC: Waist circumference; WHR: Waist to hip ratio; WHtR: Waist to height ratio; FBS: Fasting blood sugar; TG: Triglyceride; TC: Total Cholesterol; HDL-C: High density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C: Low density lipoprotein cholesterol; SBP: Systolic blood pressure; DBP: Diastolic blood pressure;

^*:

P<0.05

^†:

Logarithmic transformation;

r: pearson correlation