Table 1. Correlation Between Inflammatory Markers and Anthropometric/Biochemical Variables Among Subjects with and Without Abdominal Obesity.

Variables	Hcy				hs-CRP				IL-6
	AO		No AO		AO		No AO		AO		No AO
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Sex	-0.211	0.003a	-0.227	0.005a	0.168	0.018a	0.112	0.169	0.087	0.221	0.092	0.258
Age	-0.007	0.926	0.148	0.068	0.070	0.329	0.346	0.000a	0.105	0.140	0.018	0.827
Height	0.200	0.005a	-0.111	0.177	-0.181	0.010a	-0.209	0.010a	-0.139	0.050	-0.035	0.665
Weight	0.081	0.256	-0.020	0.806	0.480	0.505	0.112	0.169	-0.010	0.890	-0.097	0.232
BMI	-0.107	0.133	-0.117	0.149	0.204	0.004a	0.288	0.000a	0.137	0.053	-0.061	0.452
WC	-0.007	0.918	-0.015	0.849	0.175	0.014a	0.312	0.000a	0.088	0.214	0.056	0.493
Hip	-0.072	0.310	-0.209	0.010a	0.163	0.022a	0.239	0.003a	0.111	0.120	0.054	0.511
Wrist	0.225	0.001a	0.159	0.490	-0.139	0.050	0.094	0.247	-0.065	0.358	-0.126	0.121
WHR	0.010	0.161	0.152	0.060	0.004	0.959	0.166	0.040a	-0.043	0.545	0.020	0.803
WHtR	-0.123	0.085	-0.063	0.442	0.233	0.001a	0.366	0.000a	0.154	0.030a	0.068	0.406
FBS	-0.114	0.109	0.105	0.198	0.174	0.014a	0.069	0.396	0.123	0.084	-0.146	0.071
TG b	-0.103	0.149	0.068	0.436	0.051	0.473	0.284	0.000a	-0.054	0.452	-0.034	0.673
TC	0.099	0.163	0.085	0.297	0.150	0.035a	0.403	0.000a	0.002	0.980	-0.032	0.694
HDL-C	-0.155	0.028a	-0.033	0.683	-0.009	0.897	0.109	0.181	0.064	0.372	0.078	0.335
LDL-C	-0.006	0.930	0.750	0.359	0.156	0.029a	0.345	0.000a	0.013	0.859	-0.056	0.489
TG/HDL-C	0.080	0.260	0.069	0.395	0.004	0.952	-0.004	0.962	-0.048	0.497	-0.082	0.316
TC/HDL-C	0.049	0.491	0.109	0.182	0.098	0.167	0.229	0.004a	-0.037	0.605	-0.094	0.247
LDL-C/HDL-C	0.118	0.099	0.098	0.226	0.115	0.110	0.220	0.006a	-0.028	0.696	-0.105	0.197
SBP	0.002	0.975	0.091	0.270	-0.004	0.958	0.190	0.020a	0.123	0.085	0.007	0.932
DBP b	0.005	0.947	0.470	0.566	-0.056	0.433	0.297	0.001a	0.081	0.262	-0.099	0.227
Hcy b (mmol/L)	-	-	-	-	0.158	0.414	0.021	0.797	-0.007	0.921	-0.103	0.207
hs-CRP b (ng/mL)	0.058	0.414	0.210	0.797	-	-	-	-	0.157	0.026a	0.014	0.859
IL-6 b (pg/mL)	-0.007	0.921	-0.103	0.207	0.157	0.026a	0.014	0.859	-	-	-	-

Abbreviations: AO, abdominal obesity; BMI, body mass index; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; FBS, fasting blood sugar; Hcy, homocysteine; HDL-C, high density lipoprotein cholesterol; hs-CRP, C-reactive protein; IL-6, interleukin-6; LDL-C, low density lipoprotein cholesterol; r, Pearson correlation (adjusted from ref. 6); SBP, systolic blood pressure; TC, total cholesterol; TG, triglyceride; WC, waist circumference; WHR, waist to hip ratio; WHtR, waist to height ratio.

^a P < 0.05.

^b Logarithmic transformation.