Table 4. Association of fitness level with cmetS-Z and cmetS-PCA, adjusting for age, sex, BMI, sleep parameters, and region in which the participants’ school was located.

	Fitness vs. cmetS-Z		Fitness vs. cmetS-PCA
	Estimate (95% CI)	p value	Estimate (95% CI)	p value
Boys (n = 3045)
Age (per year)	1.62 (0.04–3.19)	0.04	1.14 (-0.39–2.68)	0.14
cmetS (per SD)	1.02 (-0.44–2.48)	0.17	3.24 (1.27–5.22)	0.001
BMI(per unit)	0.82 (0.55–1.08)	<0.0001	0.40 (0.03–0.77)	0.03
Sleep (per hr)	0.40 (-0.25–1.05)	0.23	0.33 (-0.31–0.99)	0.31
Region		0.01*		0.02*
Girls (n = 5067)
Age (per year)	-0.43 (-1.56–0.69)	0.45	-0.62 (-1.74–0.50)	0.28
cmetS (per SD)	0.84 (-0.07–1.76)	0.07	2.01(0.77–3.25)	0.002
BMI(per unit)	0.85 (0.68–1.01)	<0.0001	0.67 (0.45–0.90)	<0.0001
Sleep (per hr)	0.33(-0.12–0.78)	0.15	0.38 (-0.08–0.85)	0.11
Region		<0.0001*		0.0001*

*indicates p values of Wald test for all categories in type 3 analysis.