Fig 1.
Relationships between Ibs and obesity prevalence estimates in males and females.
Fig 2.
Longitudinal correlation between Ibs and sex-specific obesity prevalence in Australia.
Table 1.
Curvilinear relationship between Ibs and male and female prevalence standardized on individual major obesity contributors in different combinations.
Table 2.
Pearson r correlation (above the diagonal) Spearman rho (below the diagonal) between all variables*.
Table 3.
Correlation coefficients and Fisher’s r-to-z transformations of Pearson r and partial correlations between Ibs and male and female obesity prevalence.
Table 4.
Results of Mixed Model Analysis with the country specific data nested within WHO regions.
Means of prevalence (%) of obesity (>30kg/m2) for males and females in countries with Ibs values above and below median are shown.
Table 5.
Results of enter and stepwise linear multivariate regression analyses to identify significant predictors of obesity prevalence in females and males.
Table 6.
Correlation between Gini index and obesity prevalence in the developed world.