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Table 3 Pearson and Spearman’s correlations coefficients between the insulinemic dietary and lifestyle indices with insulin and HOMA-IR in the two examinations of TLGS

From: Development and validation of dietary and lifestyle insulinemic indices among Iranian adult population

 

Pearson correlation coefficients

Spearman correlation coefficients

TLGS. Examination 3

TLGS. Examination 4

TLGS. Examination 3

TLGS. Examination 4

Dietary and lifestyle indices for hyperinsulinemia

Serum insulin

Serum insulin

1

1

1

1

DIH

0.135**

0.003

0.124**

0.011

LIH

0.306**

0.206**

0.285**

0.115**

Unweighted DIH

0.225**

0.042

0.176**

0.024

Unweighted LIH

0.302**

0.188**

0.246**

0.101**

Empirical dietary index for HI

0.025

− 0.032

0.020

− 0.016

Empirical lifestyle index for HI

0.390**

0.316**

0.313**

0.239**

Insulin index

0.027

0.058

0.091**

0.130**

Insulin load

− 0.005

0.062

0.066*

0.096**

Dietary and lifestyle indices for insulin resistance

HOMA-IR

HOMA-IR

1

1

1

1

DIR

0.148**

0.060

0.107**

0.063

LIR

0.306**

0.208**

0.292**

0.224**

Unweighted DIR

0.224**

0.050

0.131**

0.003

Unweighted LIR

0.300*

0.220**

0.198**

0.167**

Empirical dietary index for IR

0.112**

0.042

0.076*

0.032

Empirical lifestyle index for IR

0.108**

0.072*

0.060

0.085*

Insulin index

0.029

0.069

0.010

0.040

Insulin load

0.003

0.066

− 0.020

0.034

  1. **Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)
  2. *Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)