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. 2017 Feb 23;16:15. doi: 10.1186/s12937-017-0236-7

Table 2.

Pairwise correlation coefficients among direct and indirect adiposity measures

Indirect adiposity measure Direct adiposity measure
Total % body fat logFMI logAndroid fat mass
BMI percentile 0.85 0.90 0.88
BMI 0.87 0.92 0.90
BMI categorya 0.84 0.87 0.85
logWC 0.89 0.92 0.94
logWHtR 0.89 0.90 0.87

WC waist circumference (cm), WHtR waist-to-height-ratio

aSpearman correlation used

n = 269

p > 0.005 for all correlations