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Table 5 Waist circumference and WHR were the only central adiposity indices that were significantly associated with left ventricular hypertrophy

From: Tri-ponderal mass index and left ventricular hypertrophy in a cohort of caucasian children and adolescents with obesity

Ā 

BMI z-score

TMI

WC

WHR

ABSI

Female sex

0.009

0.527

0.006

0.204

0.051

Age (years)

āˆ’0.031

0.138

*āˆ’0.697

0.250

0.168

BMI z-score

*āˆ’1.342

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

TMI

Ā 

*āˆ’0.334

Ā Ā Ā 

WC

Ā Ā 

*āˆ’0.131

Ā Ā 

WHR

Ā Ā Ā 

*āˆ’22.238

Ā 

ABSI

Ā Ā Ā Ā 

āˆ’28.186

Constant

5.620

5.969

5.777

*12.010

1.804

P value

0.085

0.073

*0.021

*0.022

0.745

Pseudo R2

0.96

0.101

0.141

0.140

0.018

AIC

70.5

70.2

64.7

67.1

74.1

  1. Associations of adiposity indices with the left ventricular hypertrophy
  2. Body Mass Index z-score (BMI z-score), Tri-ponderal Mass Index (TMI), Waist Circumference (WC), Waist-to-Height Ratio (WHR), A Body Shape Index (ABSI), Akaike information criterion (AIC)
  3. * Pā€‰<ā€‰0.050
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Italian Journal of Pediatrics

ISSN: 1824-7288

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