An Average Body Circumference Can Be a Substitute for Body Mass Index in Women

Table 3

Spearman Rank intercorrelations between BMI, body weight, height, and average body circumference (ABC).

Participants	All; ()	Normal; ()	Overweight; ()	Obese; ()
	Correlation of
BMI with
Body weight	0.93	0.73	0.69	0.69
Height	−0.12^*	−0.11^*	0.16^*	−0.08^*
ABC^a	0.95	0.60	0.77	0.80
Body weight with
Height	0.22	0.56	0.80	0.63
ABC^a	0.94	0.63	0.76	0.82
ABC^a with
Height	0.03^*	0.19^*	0.40	0.29^**

Normal, with BMI ≤24.9, overweight, with BMI 25–29.9, and obese, with BMI ≥30.
^aABC, average body circumference, average of (neck + waist + hip + arm + forearm + wrist + thigh+ ankle).
The coefficients () with one asterisk were not significant, with two asterisks having , and the rest without asterisk had .