Association between Parent’s Metabolic Syndrome and 12- to18-Year-Old Offspring’s Overweight: Results from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (K-NHANES) 2009–2016

Table 2

Correlations of parental metabolic risk factors with BMI and WC in 12- to 18-year-old adolescents.

	BMI of offspring		WC of offspring
	r		r
Father
WC	0.2235	<0.0001	0.2442	<0.0001
SBP	0.0958	<0.0001	0.075	0.0037
DBP	0.0937	00.0001	0.0548	0.0296
GLU	0.1010	0.0003	0.1017	0.0002
TG	0.0834	0.0023	0.0791	0.0029
HDL	−0.0487	0.0498	−0.0528	0.0263
Mother
WC	0.2355	<0.0001	0.2615	<0.0001
SBP	0.0968	<0.0001	0.0987	<0.0001
DBP	0.0678	0.0006	0.0689	0.0005
GLU	0.1400	<0.0001	0.1228	<0.0001
TG	0.0918	<0.0001	0.0886	<0.0001
HDL	−0.0358	0.0818	−0.0388	0.0574

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; WC, waist circumference; SBP, systolic blood pressure; DBP, diastolic blood pressure; GLU, glucose; TG, triglyceride; HDL, high-density lipoprotein.