An Anthropometric Risk Index Based on Combining Height, Weight, Waist, and Hip Measurements

Table 1

Correlations of body measures in NHANES III.

	Height	Weight	BMI	WC	HC	ABSI	WHR	HI
Height	1	0.486	−0.010	0.213	0.079	0.074	0.252	−0.528
Weight	0.360	1	0.863	0.872	0.821	0.115	0.413	−0.251
BMI	−0.011	0.919	1	0.876	0.905	0.083	0.413	0.021
WC	0.152	0.904	0.905	1	0.791	0.506	0.736	−0.154
HC	0.247	0.933	0.903	0.867	1	0.040	0.173	0.319
ABSI	0.059	0.028	0.007	0.385	0.030	1	0.777	−0.132
WHR	−0.056	0.415	0.468	0.699	0.260	0.717	1	−0.599
HI	0.016	0.034	0.031	0.028	0.356	0.030	−0.459	1

Correlation coefficients for body measures among NHANES III nonpregnant adults. The upper-right triangle of the table shows correlations of the raw values, while the lower-left triangle shows correlations of the scores relative to age- and sex-specific means.