Research Article
Change and Stability in Sibling Resemblance in Obesity Markers: The Portuguese Sibling Study on Growth, Fitness, Lifestyle, and Health
Table 3
Intraclass correlation coefficients (ρ) and 95% CI within sib-ships for the obesity markers with twins and with twins data.
| Tracking coefficients | %BF | WC | BMI |
| Brother-brother | Baseline | 0.45 (0.19–0.75) | 0.37 (0.12–0.72) | 0.24 (0.04–0.71) | Follow-up | 0.39 (0.13–0.73) | 0.36 (0.11–0.72) | 0.23 (0.03–0.72) | Sister-sister | Baseline | 0.55 (0.21–0.84) | 0.53 (0.21–0.83) | 0.62 (0.31–0.86) | Follow-up | 0.59 (0.27–0.85) | 0.47 (0.15–0.81) | 0.63 (0.31–0.86) | Brother-sister | Baseline | 0.03 (0.00–1.00) | 0.01 (0.00–1.00) | 0.07 (0.00–0.88) | Follow-up | 0 | 0 | 0.19 (0.03–0.62) |
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