Table 6.
Correlation among indices of obesity and biochemical characteristics using Pearson correlation coefficient before 6 months of exercise.
| Indices of obesity | Biochemical characteristics |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fasting glucose |
HbA1c | Total cholesterol |
LDL | HDL | Triglycerides | |
| WC | NS | NS | 0.31 | 0.21 | NS | NS |
| 0.013 | 0.018 | |||||
| BMI | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS | NS |
In each cells, the number described above is correlation coefficient, and the number below is p value of Pearson correlation coefficient. HbA1c, glycated hemoglobin; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; NS, statistically non-significant.