Table 2.

Effect of regressing out additional variables on the effect size for the mean difference of FC for females—males

Covariates	Mean of the d values of whole-brain links	Mean of the d values of links related to somatosensory/premotor	Mean of the d values of the significantly positive links in Fig. S4 which includes only the standard covariates
Standard covariates only	− 0.18	− 0.20	0.20
Standard covariates + Maximum workload during fitness test	− 0.12	− 0.13	0.16
Standard covariates + Whole body fat mass	− 0.10	− 0.12	0.14
Standard covariates + Maximum workload during fitness test AND Whole body fat mass	− 0.06	− 0.07	0.12