[Retracted] Analyzing Neck Circumference as a Tool for Evaluating Overweight and Obesity in Chinese Adolescents

Table 5

Pearson’s correlation coefficients of anthropometric indexes by age and gender.

	BMI-NC			NC-WC			BMI-WC
Age	Male	Female		Male	Female		Male	Female
13	0.84	0.81	<0.001	0.74	0.79	<0.001	0.87	0.78	<0.001
14	0.80	0.88	<0.001	0.82	0.90	<0.001	0.75	0.80	<0.001
15	0.83	0.85	<0.001	0.76	0.83	<0.001	0.78	0.83	<0.001
16	0.82	0.91	<0.001	0.85	0.75	<0.001	0.69	0.77	<0.001
17	0.76	0.83	<0.001	0.77	0.84	<0.001	0.84	0.71	<0.001
18	0.88	0.81	<0.001	0.82	0.79	<0.001	0.74	0.82	<0.001