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Published in final edited form as: J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2016 Nov 30;18(4):312–319. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2016.10.001

Table 3.

Partial correlation coefficients between grip strength and components of the metabolic syndrome.

Variable	Subgroup	BMI		Waist circumference		Glucose		Systolic BP		Diastolic BP		TG		HDL		LDL
Variable	Subgroup	Part r	P-value	Part r	P-value	Part r	P-value	Part r	P-value	Part r	P-value	Part r	P-value	Part r	P-value	Part r	P-value

Grip Strength	All	0.04	0.15	0.06	0.04	0.00	0.95	0.04	0.21	0.03	0.39	−0.01	0.75	−0.04	0.24	−0.00	0.90

	Obese	0.09	0.03	0.07	0.11	−0.02	0.65	0.05	0.26	−0.01	0.81	−0.06	0.14	−0.02	0.58	−0.04	0.39

	Non-obese	0.00	0.96	0.04	0.33	0.02	0.70	0.01	0.79	0.06	0.17	0.02	0.69	−0.03	0.44	0.03	0.51

Adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, smoking, physical activity, comorbidities, and BMI (BMI model not adjusted for BMI)