Anthropometrics, Metabolic Syndrome, and Mortality Hazard

Table 3

Correlations in NHANES III.

	hH	hBMI	hABSI	hHI	ARI	Waist	BP	TG	HDL	Glu	MS score	MS
hH	1	0.015	0.012	0.009	0.015	0.074	0.030	0.051	0.014	0.027	0.008	0.006
hBMI		1	0.032	0.080	0.775	0.388	0.116	0.104	0.123	0.100	0.284	0.215
hABSI			1	0.050	0.613	0.258	0.025	0.120	0.112	0.047	0.193	0.148
hHI				1	0.321	0.122	0.075	0.077	0.063	0.110	0.147	0.128
ARI					1	0.464	0.117	0.164	0.170	0.127	0.355	0.274
Waist						1	0.242	0.231	0.230	0.193	0.652	0.514
BP							1	0.202	0.033	0.231	0.584	0.438
TG								1	0.325	0.204	0.655	0.597
HDL									1	0.120	0.584	0.482
Glu										1	0.520	0.461
MS score											1	0.828
MS												1

Correlation coefficients among NHANES III nonpregnant adults. hH, hBMI, hABSI, and hHI refer to hazard ratio logarithms based on functional relationships between mortality and the Z scores of the respective anthropometric measures height, body mass index, a body shape index, and hip index. ARI is the sum of these 4 quantities. The metabolic syndrome score MS score is the sum of scores for the waist circumference, blood pressure, triglyceride, high-density lipoprotein, and glucose components defined in Table 1. Metabolic syndrome MS is defined as a score of 3 or more.