Table 2.

The correlation coefficient between irisin and metabolic syndrome components, insulin resistance, and secretion after adjusting of age in boys and girls.

	Boys	Girls
Body fat	–0.040	–0.095
BMI percentile	0.081	–0.016
Waist circumference	0.068	–0.012
Fasting plasma glucose∗	–0.205	0.150
Systolic blood pressure	0.071	–0.020
Diastolic blood pressure	0.013	–0.048
Total cholesterol	0.008	–0.018
Triglyceride	0.028	–0.049
High density lipoprotein	–0.029	–0.022
Low density lipoprotein	0.059	0.015
HOMA-IR	–0.079	–0.020
HOMA-β	–0.024	–0.042