Table 3.

Factors, Loadings, and Sums of Squared Loadings in All Data (Males (M) and Females (F)), and by Gender (M, F) (Varimax Rotation)

Factor 1 (Obesity)	Sample	BMI*	%BF	WHR	WAIST	INS	GLUC	SBP	DBP	LDL	HDL	TG	SS Loadings
Blacks	M+F (1422)	0.95†	0.71	0.32	0.86	0.42	-0.20	0.13					2.49
	M (483)	0.92	0.71	0.65	0.95	0.46	-0.15	0.11		0.11	-0.21	0.14	2.91
	F (939)	0.96	0.71	0.23	0.84	0.40	-0.22	0.14					2.43
Whites	M+F (1470)	0.94	0.77	0.40	0.86	0.46	-0.26	0.14			-0.11	0.11	2.69
	M (721)	0.94	0.76	0.55	0.93	0.48	-0.26				-0.13	0.16	2.99
	F (749)	0.94	0.81	0.31	0.84	0.46	-0.28	0.18			-0.11	0.11	2.69
Factor 2 (BP)	Sample	BMI	%BF	WHR	WAIST	INS	GLUC	SBP	DBP	LDL	HDL	TG	SS Loadings
Blacks	M+F (1422)							0.99	0.76				1.58
	M (483)					0.13		0.83	0.83				1.42
	F (939)							0.99	0.77				1.59
Whites	M+F (1470)					0.13		0.88	0.76				1.39
	M (721)					0.14		0.87	0.80				1.41
	F (749)					0.12	-0.14	0.98	0.65		0.11		1.45
Factor 3 (Lipids)	Sample	BMI	%BF	WHR	WAIST	INS	GLUC	SBP	DBP	LDL	HDL	TG	SS Loadings
Blacks	M+F (1422)	0.22	0.19	0.31	0.24	0.52	-0.43			0.27	-0.57	0.64	1.49
	M (483)	0.17	0.12	0.29	0.18	0.48	-0.19				-0.72	0.65	1.37
	F (939)	0.18	0.11	0.29	0.21	0.49	-0.41			0.32	-0.55	0.59	1.32
Whites	M+F (1470)	0.23	0.17	0.27	0.21	0.51	-0.27				-0.68	0.64	1.41
	M (721)	0.14				0.41	-0.18			-0.18	-0.75	0.61	1.20
	F (749)	0.25	0.19	0.24	0.23	0.5	-0.34	0.11		0.22	-0.70	0.60	1.44
Factor 4 (Central Obesity)	Sample	BMI	%BF	WHR	WAIST	INS	GLUC	SBP	DBP	LDL	HDL	TG	SS Loadings
Blacks	M+F (1422)			0.90	0.40	0.15	-0.13					0.11	1.03
	M (483)		-0.19	0.37	0.11								0.2
	F (939)			0.93	0.44	0.15	-0.16					0.11	1.13
Whites	M+F (1470)		0.16	0.69	0.47		-0.10						0.76
	M (721)		0.11	0.57	0.27		-0.11				0.13		0.45
	F (749)			0.92	0.44	0.14							1.10

* Variables were adjusted for age and center within ethnicity and gender (see Material and Methods)

GLUC negative loadings are result of inverse squared power transformation of the original GLUC;† Loadings ≥ 0.4 are in bold