TABLE 3.

Correlation of male body shape principal components (PCs) to anthropometric, body composition, blood, and strength metrics (n = 177)¹

Parameter	PC1	PC2	PC3	PC4	PC5	PC6	PC7	PC8	PC9	PC10	PC11
Age				–0.19		–0.25*		0.32*		–0.20
Height	–0.95*
Weight	–0.47*	0.22	–0.79*	0.22
BMI	–0.20	0.27*	–0.88*	0.23
Waist circ.	–0.32*	0.24	–0.84*	0.17				0.20
Hip circ.	–0.34*	0.22	–0.79*	0.19	–0.17
Arm circ.	–0.33*	0.24	–0.72*	0.27*
Thigh circ.	–0.36*	0.16	–0.65*	0.31*
WHR			–0.52*			–0.21		0.22
WHtR		0.28*	–0.87*	0.16				0.23
Fat mass	–0.23	0.20	–0.77*	0.20	–0.17			0.21	0.19
Lean mass	–0.57*	0.19	–0.65*	0.20
Percentage fat		0.16	–0.58*					0.32*	0.28*
FMI		0.21	–0.79*	0.19	–0.16			0.24	0.20
FFMI	–0.25*	0.26*	–0.77*	0.22
Visceral fat		0.19	–0.55*			–0.18		0.27*	0.16
Trunk fat	–0.20	0.24	–0.79*	0.16				0.23	0.18
Trunk lean	–0.55*	0.20	–0.70*	0.20
Arm fat	–0.23	0.20	–0.75*	0.22				0.19	0.19
Arm lean	–0.50*	0.22	–0.54*	0.17		0.17
Leg fat	–0.24		–0.66*	0.22	–0.20			0.16	0.19
Leg lean	–0.58*		–0.58*	0.21
HbA1c		0.16	–0.32*					0.20
Total cholesterol
LDL cholesterol			–0.16
HDL cholesterol			0.36*			0.16
Triglycerides	–0.16		–0.20			–0.19
Glucose			–0.21				–0.20	0.17
Insulin		0.31*	–0.53*
HOMA-IR		0.25	–0.52*
Handgrip left	–0.34*							–0.27	–0.33*	–0.20
Handgrip right	–0.31*							–0.26	–0.26
Isometric knee extension	–0.50*		–0.39*					–0.31*	–0.23	–0.19
Isokinetic knee extension	–0.38*		–0.21	0.33*			0.21	–0.26			–0.25

¹Only significant correlations are shown (P < 0.05 or *P < 0.001). Circ., circumference; FFM, fat-free mass; FFMI, fat-free mass index; HbA1c, glycated hemoglobin; WHR, waist-to-hip ratio; WHtR, waist-to-height ratio.