Fig. 1

Mediation effects of VFL and TBF on the association between Caveolin-1 rs807992 polymorphism and cMetS (VFL; A), (TBF; B). Confounding factors were age, energy intake. Standardized coefficients were shown along with their estimated p values: “a” is the linear regression coefficient of the CAV-1rs3807992- cMetS association; “b” is the linear regression coefficient of the VFL and TBF of cMetS. *p < 0.05; ** p < 0.001. CAV-1 coded for the number of risk alleles present carried by an individual (GG = 0 AG + AA = 1). The analysis was done using SPSS Process Andrew 3.3 with 5000 bootstrap samples. Statistically significant paths do NOT contain zero between lower and upper level confidence intervals