Accuracy of Neck Circumference in Classifying Overweight and Obese US Children

Table 3

Pearson correlation coefficients among neck circumference (NC), body mass index (BMI), and percent body fat (BF%) (𝑛=92).

	NC and BF%	BMI and BF%	NC and BMI
Boys (𝑛=61)	.44	.76	.78
Girls (𝑛=31)	.65	.74	.72

Note: all correlations were significant (𝑃<0.001).