Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Associations between Body Mass Index and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Adolescents in a Country of the African Region

Table 4

Standardized linear regression coefficients for the associations between cardiometabolic risk factors at the age of 19-20 years and body mass index measured at the age of 12–15 years or at the age of 19-20 years.

	SBP	DBP	LDL-cholesterol	HDL-cholesterol	Triglyceride	Fasting glucose	Uric acid
Males
BMI at 12–15 years	0.24**	0.27***	0.20**	−0.12	0.17*	−0.01	0.27***
BMI at 19 years	0.27***	0.34***	0.26***	−0.16*	0.38***	0.05	0.33***
BMI12--15 adj for BMI19	0.11	0.07	0.03	−0.03	−0.18	−0.09	0.08
BMI19 adj for BMI12--15	0.19*	0.28**	0.24*	−0.14	0.51***	0.11	0.28**
Females
BMI at 14 years	0.23**	0.31***	0.04	−0.05	0.14*	0.29***	0.17*
BMI at 19 years	0.31***	0.36***	0.09	−0.17*	0.26***	0.39***	0.27***
BMI12--15 adj for BMI19	−0.1	0.01	−0.15	0.35**	−0.29*	−0.15	−0.22
BMI19 adj for BMI12--15	0.39**	0.35**	0.22	−0.47***	0.51***	0.52***	0.46***

adj: adjusted.
^∗𝑃<0.05; ^∗∗𝑃<0.01; ^∗∗∗𝑃<0.001.
BMI: body mass index; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; LDL-cholesterol: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HDL-cholesterol: high-density lipoprotein.