Interrelationships between BMI, skinfold thicknesses, percent body fat, and cardiovascular disease risk factors among U.S. children and adolescents

Table 5 Correlations between the CVD risk factors and measures of body size, by race-ethnicity

Race-ethnicity	Characteristic	Total cholesterol	Triglycerides ^a	LDL cholesterol	Non-HDL Cholesterol	HDL cholesterol	SBP	DBP
White non-Hispanics (N = 2026)	Adjusted BMI	0.14	0.31	0.17	0.26	−0.35	0.31	−0.03
	PBF_Slaughter	0.17	0.33	0.17	0.27	−0.30*	0.21*	0.05*
	PBF_DXA	0.17	0.25	0.16	0.26	−0.26*	0.22*	0.07*
Black non-Hispanics (N = 2433)	Adjusted BMI	0.11	0.32	0.20	0.24	−0.32	0.32	0.03
	PBF_Slaughter	0.12	0.31	0.24*	0.26	−0.32	0.25*	0.07*
	PBF_DXA	0.10	0.24	0.21	0.23	−0.31	0.21*	0.08*
Mexican-Americans (N = 2547)	Adjusted BMI	0.19	0.39	0.26	0.30	−0.32	0.35	0.00
	PBF_Slaughter	0.19	0.37	0.25	0.30	−0.31	0.25*	0.04*
	PBF_DXA	0.15*	0.32	0.19	0.25*	−0.30	0.24*	0.06*

^aLevels of triglycerides were log transformed
*P-values assesses whether the correlation between the risk factor and adjusted BMI is equal to the correlation between the risk factor and either PBF_Slaughter or PBF_DXA. Among white non-Hispanics, for example, levels of SBP were more strongly associated with adjusted BMI (r = 0.31) than with PBF_DXA (r = 0.22). * p ≤ 0.01, H₀: correlation of risk factor with adjusted BMI is equal to its correlation with PBF_Slaughter or PBF_DXA

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