Familial Aggregation of Metabolic Syndrome Indicators in Portuguese Families

Table 5

Cross-trait interindividuals correlations of MetS components according to each class of relatives.

Trait	HDL	SBP	TG	WC
GLU	𝜌FM=0.07	−0.12*	0.04	0.08
	𝜌FO=0.06	0.01	0.08*	0.04
	𝜌MO=0.04	−0.12*	0.06	−0.02
	𝜌SIBS=0.04	−0.08	0.05	−0.10*
HDL		−0.08	−0.05	0.09
		0.08	−0.07	0.07
		−0.08	−0.08*	0.08*
		−0.09	−0.08	0.14*
SBP			0.07	0.13*
			0.01	0.05
			0.01	−0.00
			0.01	−0.07
TG				0.03
				0.08*
				0.07*
				0.07

∗Significantly different from 0 at 𝑃<0.05.
HDL: high density lipoprotein; GLU: glucose; SBP: systolic blood pressure; TG: triglycerides; WC: waist circumference.
Each pair of traits is characterized by 4 types of inter-individual correlations: between spouses (𝜌_FM), father-offspring (𝜌_FO), mother-offspring (𝜌_MO), and sib-sib (𝜌_SS).