Table 3.

Pearson Correlation Coefficients for Systolic Blood Pressure or Diastohc Blood Pressure and Age and Measures of Adiposity Among Participants Untreated for Hypertension^£* (r)

	Systolic Blood Pressure					Diastolic Blood Pressure
	Ghana	South Africa	Jamaica	Seychelles	United States	Ghana	South Africa	Jamaica	Seychelles	United States
Men
Age	−0.01	0.14	0.07	0.20	0.18	0.16	0.19	0.15	0.30	0.17
BMI	0.24	0.08	0.22	0.27	0.10	0.23	0.10	0.30	0.46	0.27
Waist	0.14	0.10	0.23	0.22	0.13	0.15	0.15	0.33	0.42	0.28
%Fat	0.09	0.11	0.16	0.15	0.02	0.17	0.18	0.26	0.34	0.16
Women
Age	0.16	0.34	0.33	0.28	0.20	0.17	0.35	0.28	0.22	0.18
BMI	0.04	−0.15	0.04	0.14	0.02	0.22	0.05	0.30	0.26	0.25
Waist	0.10	−0.10	0.09	0.16	0.07	0.23	0.07	0.32	0.29	0.27
%Fat	−0.02	−0.16	0.003	0.005	−0.01	0.16	0.08	0.23	0.15	0.17

^£Sample sizes for men: Ghana (n=207), South Africa (n=229), Jamaica (n=247), Seychelles (n=208), United States (n=226); sample sizes for women: Ghana (n=290), South Africa (n=268), Jamaica (n=243), Seychelles (n=245), United States (n=230)

^*A11 correlation coefficients (r) ≥ 0.14 are statistically significant at p<0.05