Body shape index versus body mass index as correlates of health risk in young healthy sedentary men

Table 2 Biochemical variables in young healthy men according to lower and upper quartiles of BMI and ABSI

Variable	Glucose	Insulin	TG	TC	HDL-C	LDL-C	Non-HDL
BMI
Q1 (20.0 ± 0.9)	4.8 ± 0.6	10.4 ± 7.2	0.8 ± 0.4	4.5 ± 0.9	1.4 ± 0.3	2.7 ± 0.8	3.0 ± 08
Q 4 (28.2 ± 2.8)	5.1 ± 0.4	10.5 ± 4.8	1.2 ± 0.5^a	4.5 ± 0.8	1.3 ± 0.3	2.7 ± 0.8	3.2 ± 0.8
ABSI
Q1 (0.069 ± 0.001)	4.9 ± 0.5	7.2 ± 2.9	0.9 ± 0.4	4.3 ± 0.8	1.4 ± 0.2	2.4 ± 0.8	2.9 ± 0.8
Q 4 (0.077 ± 0.002)	4.9 ± 0.5	13.8 ± 7.6^b	0.9 ± 0.4	4.8 ± 0.9	1.3 ± 0.3	3.1 ± 0.8^b	3.5 ± 0.8^b

For abbreviations see Table 1; Q₁ ^, Q₄ - lower and upper quartile, respectively; ^aP < 0.05; ^bP <0.001.

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