Serum leptin is associated with cardiometabolic risk and predicts metabolic syndrome in Taiwanese adults

Table 2 ^aSpearmen's correlation of leptin levels with cardiometabolic risk factors in men and women.

	Men		Women
Cardiometabolic risk factors	r _s	P -value	r _s	P -value
Age, y	0.060	0.119	0.161	0.008*
Body mass index, kg/m²	0.718	<0.001*	0.629	<0.001*
Waist circumference, cm	0.743	<0.001*	0.502	<0.001*
Tobacco usage (Yes vs. No)	0.012	0.744	-0.062	0.309
Alcohol usage (Yes vs. No)	-0.002	0.948	-0.05	0.409
Systolic blood pressure, mm Hg	0.275	<0.001*	0.199	0.001*
Diastolic blood pressure, mm Hg	0.28	<0.001*	0.195	0.001*
Total cholesterol, mg/dL	0.203	<0.001*	0.185	0.002*
Triglyceride, mg/dL	0.364	<0.001*	0.298	<0.001*
Fasting plasma glucose, mg/dL	0.246	<0.001*	0.243	<0.001*
Uric acid, mg/dL	0.329	<0.001*	0.239	<0.001*
HDL cholesterol, mg/dL	-0.337	<0.001*	-0.227	<0.001*
LDL cholesterol, mg/dL	0.264	<0.001*	0.256	<0.001*
Homocysteine, umol/L	-0.027	0.474	0.059	0.345
CVD risk, %	0.257	<0.001*	0.246	<0.001*

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