Table 2.

The correlation between blood pressure and body composition parameters

	Systolic Blood Pressure (SP) n = 273		Diastolic Blood Pressure (DP) n = 273
Variables	r	p-value	r	p-value
BMI (kg/m2)	0.06	0.313	0.19	0.001*
WC (cm)	0.09	0.131	0.23	0.000**
Body fat mass (kg)	0.06	0.298	0.22	0.000**
Body fat percentage (kg)	0.06	0.367	0.18	0.003*
Visceral fat area (cm2)	0.07	0.239	0.22	0.000**
Skeletal muscle mass (kg)	0.04	0.497	0.14	0.021*

P-value: ^* p < 0.01, ^**p < 0.001