Fig. 1

Correlation between anthropometry and body composition. ABSI – a body shape index; ASAT – abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue; BMI – body mass index; HC – hip circumference; HI – hip index; VAT – visceral adipose tissue; WC – waist circumference; WHI – waist-to-hip index; WHR – waist-to-hip ratio. Men – bottom-left half of each panel. Women – top-right half of each panel. Cells – show partial Pearson correlation coefficients, with adjustment for age, weight change during the last year preceding the visit, smoking status, alcohol consumption, physical activity, Townsend deprivation index, region (except for VAT and ASAT) and, for women, menopausal status and use of hormonal replacement therapy (see definition of covariates in Supplementary Methods). Lean and fat mass correspond to dual-emission X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) measurements. VAT and ASAT correspond to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measurements. Anthropometry, hand grip strength and DXA measurements were obtained from the DXA dataset and MRI measurements from the overlap of the DXA and MRI datasets (see Supplementary Fig. S1 for the definition of datasets). Body-composition measurements were converted to allometric indices with scaling for height (left panel) or height and weight (right panel) (see scaling coefficients and formulas in Supplementary Table S2) and then to sex-specific z-scores (value minus mean, divided by the standard deviation). Complete correlation heatmaps, including all body-composition measurements, are shown in Supplementary Fig. S2 (for scaling with height) and Supplementary Fig. S3 (for scaling with height and weight)