AA	Associate of Arts
GED	General Educational development
NCHS	National Center for Health Statistics
BMI	Body mass index
VAT	Visceral adipose tissue
Mn	Manganese
NHANES	National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
DXA	Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry
GAM	Generalized additive model
STROBE	Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology
ICP-DRC-MS	Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry with dynamic reaction cell
PIR	Family income-to-poverty ratio
OR	Odds ratio