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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2015 Aug 11;23(9):1920–1928. doi: 10.1002/oby.21176

Table 2. Age-adjusted partial Pearson correlation coefficients between obesity measures and cardiometabolic markers in Hispanic/Latino women and men*.

Women Men


BMI WC WHR WHtR %BF FMI BMI WC WHR WHtR %BF FMI
Obesity measures
 WC 0.87 - - - - - 0.91 - - - - -
 WHR 0.34 0.61 - - - - 0.58 0.72 - - - -
 WHtR 0.87 0.96 0.62 - - - 0.92 0.95 0.74 - - -
 %BF 0.90 0.84 0.34 0.78 - - 0.88 0.84 0.56 0.85 - -
 FMI 0.94 0.85 0.35 0.82 0.98 - 0.94 0.88 0.58 0.89 0.96 -
Cardiometabolic makers
 Systolic blood pressure 0.09 0.08 0.06 0.08 0.09 0.09 0.13 0.12 0.10 0.12 0.14 0.13
 Diastolic blood pressure 0.32 0.27 0.10 0.26 0.32 0.33 0.35 0.34 0.26 0.34 0.35 0.35
 LDL-cholesterol 0.09 0.07 0.06 0.09 0.11 0.09 0.15 0.16 0.15 0.17 0.21 0.16
 HDL-cholesterol -0.29 -0.31 -0.27 -0.31 -0.28 -0.29 -0.30 -0.29 -0.25 -0.28 -0.29 -0.27
 Triglycerides 0.26 0.29 0.29 0.30 0.28 0.26 0.31 0.31 0.31 0.33 0.33 0.30
 Fasting glucose 0.11 0.14 0.16 0.15 0.08 0.10 0.10 0.11 0.14 0.11 0.10 0.10
 2-h glucose 0.20 0.18 0.17 0.22 0.16 0.18 0.21 0.21 0.20 0.25 0.23 0.23
 Fasting insulin 0.54 0.52 0.33 0.51 0.54 0.55 0.59 0.61 0.47 0.60 0.59 0.59
 HOMA-IR 0.53 0.52 0.34 0.51 0.52 0.53 0.58 0.60 0.48 0.59 0.59 0.58
 Hemoglobin A1c 0.17 0.18 0.19 0.20 0.12 0.15 0.12 0.13 0.16 0.13 0.11 0.12
*

Values are weighted to the target population and adjusted for age; participants receiving medications for hypertension, diabetes, or dyslipidemia were excluded from the analysis for all cardiometabolic markers; all correlations statistically significant P<0.002.

BMI, body mass index; WC, waist circumference; WHR, waist-to-hip ratio; WHtR, waist-to-height ratio; %BF, percent body fat; FMI, fat mass index.