Correlation of the surrogate markers of abdominal adiposity and body mass index with clinical, hormonal and metabolic variables when considering control women, patients with PCOS and men as a whole.

Values are Pearson's correlation coefficients. Logarithmic or square root transformations were applied to raw data as needed to ensure a normal distribution of the variables.
*P<0.001;
†P<0.01;
‡P<0.05.
Correlation of the surrogate markers of abdominal adiposity and body mass index with clinical, hormonal and metabolic variables when considering control women, patients with PCOS and men as a whole.