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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2019 Dec 26;28(2):379–387. doi: 10.1002/oby.22694

Table 4.

Associations of metabolic syndrome components with factor scores among adolescents classified as non-overweight/obese (non-OWOB) and overweight/obese (OWOB).

β (95% CI) per 1 unit of each age- and sex-specific z-scorea
Waist circ. HOMA-IR Inverted HDL Triglycerides SBP
Non-OWOB (n=364)b
 Factor 1 0.15 (−0.34, 0.63) −0.55 (−0.74, −0.36) −0.14 (−0.34, 0.05) −0.20 (−0.41, 0.01) −0.13 (−0.30, 0.04)
 Factor 5 −0.29 (−0.93, 0.35) 0.08 (−0.18, 0.34) 0.01 (−0.24, 0.27) −0.01 (−0.29, 0.27) 0.08 (−0.14, 0.30)
 Factor 7 −0.52 (−0.95, −0.10) 0.09 (−0.08, 0.26) 0.14 (−0.03, 0.31) 0.35 (0.17, 0.54) 0.17 (0.02, 0.32)
 Factor 8 0.25 (−0.51, 1.00) 0.22 (−0.09, 0.53) 0.22 (−0.07, 0.52) 0.99 (0.68, 1.30) 0.06 (−0.20, 0.33)
 Factor 9 0.58 (0.11, 1.05) 0.04 (−0.15, 0.23) 0.07 (−0.11, 0.26) 0.06 (−0.14, 0.27) −0.04 (−0.21, 0.13)
OWOB (n=160)b
 Factor 1 −0.39 (−0.73, −0.05) −0.26 (−0.40, −0.12) −0.32 (−0.61, −0.03) 0.07 (−0.19, 0.33) −0.07 (−0.30, 0.16)
 Factor 5 0.75 (0.27, 1.23) 0.25 (0.04, 0.45) 0.17 (−0.26, 0.59) −0.30 (−0.67, 0.07) 0.06 (−0.27, 0.39)
 Factor 7 0.26 (−0.05, 0.55) 0.00 (−0.12, 0.13) 0.22 (−0.04, 0.05) 0.02 (−0.20, 0.24) 0.05 (−0.15, 0.24)
 Factor 8 0.28 (−0.29, 0.87) 0.07 (−0.19, 0.33) 0.40 (−0.11, 0.90) 0.95 (0.54, 1.37) 0.05 (−0.35, 0.44)
 Factor 9 0.00 (−0.32, 0.32) 0.06 (−0.08, 0.20) 0.09 (−0.18, 0.37) 0.23 (−0.00, 0.47) −0.01 (−0.22, 0.20)
a

Estimates are adjusted for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and pubertal status

b

OWOB and non-OWOB defined as ≥85th and <85th percentile, respectively, of age- and sex-specific BMI according to the CDC growth reference.

Bold font indicates statistical significance at alpha = 0.05.