Table 2. Pair-wise correlation coefficients of chronic psychosocial stress with central obesity and metabolic traits in the MESA data sets for the samples having quality-controlled genotype and phenotype data.
| CENTRAL OBESITY TRAITS | METABOLIC TRAITS | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANCESTRY | HIPCM | WAISTCM | BMI | GLUC | LDL | HDL | TRIG | SYSTBP | DIASTBP |
| WHITES | 0.1053* (<0.0001) | 0.0457* (0.023) | 0.0990* (<0.0001) | 0.0096 (0.63) | −0.0101 (0.62) | 0.0356 (0.079) | 0.0561* (0.0058) | −0.0682* (0.0008) | −0.0442* (0.029) |
| CHINESE AMERICANS | −0.0545 (0.21) | −0.0488 (0.27) | −0.0392 (0.36) | 0.0188 (0.66) | −0.0412 (0.34) | 0.0656 (0.13) | 0.0249 (0.56) | −0.0439 (0.31) | −0.0530 (0.022) |
| BLACKS | 0.1377* (<0.0001) | 0.0888* (0.0005) | 0.1384* (<0.0001) | 0.0754* (0.0032) | 0.0088 (0.73) | 0.0271 (0.29) | 0.0343 (0.18) | 0.0066 (0.79) | −0.0073 (0.77) |
| HISPANICS | 0.1084* (0.0001) | 0.0493 (0.085) | 0.0904* (0.0016) | 0.0391 (0.17) | −0.0351 (0.22) | 0.0618* (0.031) | −0.0105 (0.71) | −0.0826* (0.0019) | −0.0358 (0.21) |
The significance levels of correlations are shown in parentheses. The bold entries represent the strongest correlations that were the basis of phenotype selection.
*It denotes whether a pair-wise correlation was significant at 5% level.