Effects of Tai Chi and Walking Exercises on Weight Loss, Metabolic Syndrome Parameters, and Bone Mineral Density: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 4

Correlation coefficients of weight loss, fat mass, lean mass, waist circumference with BMD, and metabolic syndrome parameters^a.

	Δ BMD	Δ waist circumference	Δ SBP	Δ DBP	Δ FBG	Δ TC	Δ HDL-C	Δ LDL-C	Δ triglycerides
Weight loss (Δ body weight)	−0.05	0.38	0.13	0.04	0.03	0.09	−0.01	0.05	0.20
Δ fat mass	0.05	0.19	0.03	0.06	0.07	0.12	0.05	0.11	0.04
Δ lean mass	0.41	0.09	−0.08	−0.06	−0.01	−0.02	−0.05	−0.04	0.05
Δ waist circumference	0.01	1.00	0.15	0.03	0.23	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.01

BMD: bone mineral density; SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; FBG: fasting blood glucose; TC: total cholesterol; HDL-C: high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C: low-density lipoprotein cholesterol.
^aCorrelation analyses were conducted between pre-post differences (Δ) of body weight, fat mass, lean mass, waist circumference and pre-post differences (Δ) of bone mineral density (BMD) and other metabolic syndrome parameters. Analysis only included cases in Tai Chi and walking groups. Pre-Post difference (Δ) = post value − pre value.
Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).
Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).