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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 8.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2016 Mar 9;24(5):1148–1153. doi: 10.1002/oby.21462

TABLE 3. Spearman correlation between concentrated disadvantage individual variables and inflammatory and metabolic markers overall and by race.

n % Unemployment,
ρ
% Black,
ρ
% Female head of
house,
ρ
% Poverty,
ρ
% Receive public
assistance
ρ
% Under
18 years,
ρ
z_BMI 96 −0.195 −0.084 −0.263a −0.099 −0.084 0.068
Body fat 95 −0.207 −0.025a −0.275a −0.103 −0.049 0.128
VAT 74 −0.140 −0.023 −0.345a −0.030 0.005 0.245a
SAT 74 −0.129 −0.001 −0.330a −0.067 −0.023 0.218
HOMA-IR 68 0.104 0.162 −0.082 0.214 0.182 0.025
IMCL 90 −0.147 −0.013 −0.177 −0.060 −0.009 0.112
IHL 84 0.013 0.048 0.039 0.047 0.030 −0.030
IL-6 37 −0.096 0.010 −0.124 −0.132 −0.258 0.167
IL-8 37 −0.180 −0.165 −0.211 −0.156 −0.298 −0.039
TNF-α 37 0.098 0.0230 0.038 0.030 0.084 0.089
a

P-value <0.05.