Table 3.

Spearman Rank intercorrelations between BMI, body weight, height, and average body circumference (ABC).

Participants	All (n = 193)	Normal (n = 61)	Overweight (n = 68)	Obese (n = 64)
	R	R	R	R
Correlation of
BMI with
Body weight	0.93	0.73	0.69	0.69
Height	−0.12*	−0.11*	0.16*	−0.08*
ABCa	0.95	0.60	0.77	0.80
Body weight with
Height	0.22	0.56	0.80	0.63
ABCa	0.94	0.63	0.76	0.82
ABCa with
Height	0.03*	0.19*	0.40	0.29**

Normal, with BMI ≤24.9, overweight, with BMI 25–29.9, and obese, with BMI ≥30.

^aABC, average body circumference, average of (neck + waist + hip + arm + forearm + wrist + thigh+ ankle).

The coefficients (R) with one asterisk were not significant, with two asterisks having P = 0.03, and the rest without asterisk had P < 0.001.