Nutritional status and Cardiometabolic health among adolescents; findings from southwestern Nigeria

BMC Nutrition

Table 5 Correlation analysis between nutritional and cardiometabolic indicators

	Correlation coefficient (p-value)
	BMI	SBP	DBP
BMI	–	0.388 (< 0.001)^a	0.255 (< 0.001)^a
WHR	0.009 (0.873)	0.013 (0.816)	0.004 (0.950)
WHtR	0.617 (< 0.001)^a	0.181 (0.001)^a	0.250 (< 0.001)^a

WHR waist-hip ratio, WHtR waist-to-height ratio; BMI body mass index, SBP – systolic blood pressure; DBP diastolic blood pressure ^a statistically significant

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