Fitness versus Fatness and Insulin Resistance in U.S. Adolescents

Table 2

Pearson product moment correlation coefficients between waist circumference, VO₂max, BMI, and lnHOMA by gender.

		LnHOMA
Parameter	Boys (n = 573)	Girls (n = 505)	All (N = 1078)
Waist circumference	0.59*	0.54*	0.56*
VO2max	−0.29*	−0.06	−0.20*
BMI	0.57*	0.56*	0.56*

BMI: body mass index; *P <.01.