The canonical Correlation of Human Body Parameters with Risk Factors of cardiovascular Disease

In order to investigate the association between cardiovascular risk factors and a set of human body parameters,at the same time to determine which parameter correlated most highly with the risk factors.Collected data including body height and Weight,waist,abdominal and hip circumferences,and risk factors(serum total cholesterol,high density lipoprotein cholesterol,blooding sugar,systolic and diastolic blood pressure)were available from survey of cardiovascular risk factors in the residents of AnHui rural areas.After Calculation body mass index(BMI),waist/hip(WHR),abdominal/hip(AHR)and conicity index(CI),then the association of body parameters and risk factors was gained by SAS canonical correlation analysis,As the results point out:Canonical correlation were statistically significant between the body parameters and cardiovascular risk factors in all sex-age-specific groups.of the body parameters,BMI consistently demonstrates the highest correlation coefficients with cardiovascular risk factors.So the canonical correlation analysis indicates that BMI is the simplest but the most important of the body parameters for the risk of cardiovascular disease.