Table 5.

	Indigenous Australian		Australian Caucasian
	Beta (95% CIs)	p-value	Beta (95% CIs)	p-value
Sex (Female reference)	0.41 (-0.01, 0.83)	0.057	0.76 (0.46, 1.06)	<0.01
Age (years)	-0.01 (-0.02, 0)	0.108	0 (-0.01, 0.01)	0.60
Height (cm)	0.05 (0.02, 0.07)	0.001	0.06 (0.05, 0.08)	<0.01
Weight (kg)	0.01 (0, 0.01)	0.050	0 (-0.01, 0.01)	0.94
Former smoker (non-smoker reference)	-0.2 (-0.67, 0.27)	0.401	0.1 (-0.14, 0.35)	0.41
Current smoker (non-smoker reference)	-0.07 (-0.49, 0.34)	0.726	-0.09 (-0.39, 0.21)	0.56
Model R2 & p-value	0.347	<0.001	0.580	<0.01

Data were expressed as means (95% confidence interval).

R²: adjusted form of Pearson’s product moment correlation coefficient.

Values fit within the ’Mild’ (0.3–0.5) or ’Moderate’ (0.5–0.7) correlation range.