Familial Aggregation of Metabolic Syndrome Indicators in Portuguese Families

Table 2

Heritability (ℎ²) estimates of the different phenotypes in the healthy families study.

Trait	ℎ^2	Std. error	𝑃 value	CI95%
WC	0.60	0.05	<0.001	0.52–0.67
SBP	0.50	0.05	<0.001	0.42–0.59
GLU	0.12	0.05	<0.001	0.03–0.20
HDL	0.44	0.05	<0.001	0.36–0.52
TG	0.29	0.06	<0.001	0.20–0.38

WC: waist circumference; SBP: systolic blood pressure; GLU: glucose; HDL: high density lipoprotein; TG: triglycerides.