Sagittal Abdominal Diameter as a Screening Tool in Clinical Research: Cutoffs for Cardiometabolic Risk

Table 3

Correlation coefficients between anthropometric and cardiometabolic variables.

	SAD	Waist	WHR	BMI	SAD	Waist	WHR	BMI
	Men $(n=1936)$				Women $(n=2096)$
Sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD)	—	0.88	0.70	0.85	—	0.89	0.58	0.85
Cardiometabolic risk score	0.56*	0.53	0.53	0.49	0.50	0.51	0.44	0.51
Glucose	0.26	0.24	0.23	0.23	0.42	0.30	0.27	0.27
Insulin	0.52	0.50	0.43	0.51	0.45	0.43	0.37	0.41
Triglycerides	0.41	0.36	0.35	0.34	0.38	0.40	0.43	0.31
LDL cholesterol	0.05	0.02	0.01	0.02	0.12	0.11	0.12	0.09
HDL cholesterol	$-0.32$	$-0.32$	$-0.28$	$-0.31$	$-0.29$	$-0.37$	$-0.35$	$-0.32$
apoB/apoA-1	0.26	0.24	0.21	0.23	0.29	0.31	0.32	0.25
Systolic blood pressure	0.27	0.24	0.24	0.23	0.21	0.21	0.21	0.18
Diastolic blood pressure	0.29	0.26	0.25	0.25	0.21	0.20	0.20	0.17
Fibrinogen	0.24	0.23	0.26	0.16	0.40	0.40	0.30	0.38
γ-Glutamyltransferase	0.32	0.29	0.30	0.26	0.29	0.29	0.29	0.24

Data are Pearson’s correlation coefficients. WHR: waist-to-hip ratio. All correlations were significant $(P<.05)$ except that for waist girth, BMI, and WHR with LDL cholesterol in men. ${}^{*}$The correlation between SAD and the cardiometabolic risk score was statistically significantly different compared with all other anthropometric measures in men (all $P<.05$), but was only significantly different from BMI in women.