Table 5.
Partial correlation among GWI symptom severity (partial correlation controlling for age and sex).
| Pearson’s correlation | Sleep | Pain r (p) |
Fatigue r (p) |
Neurologic r (p) |
PTSD r (p) |
Depression r (p) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sleep | – | 0.252 (0.021) | 0.300 (0.006) | 0.632 (0.000) | 0.395 (0.000) | 0.422 (0.000) |
| Pain | – | 0.114 (0.302) | 0.329 (0.002) | 0.110 (0.319) | 0.028 (0.797) | |
| Fatigue | – | 0.408 (0.000) | 0.301 (0.005) | 0.314 (0.004) | ||
| Neurologic | – | 0.515 (0.000) | 0.469 (0.000) | |||
| PTSD | – | 0.426 (0.000) | ||||
| Depression | – |
Bold: significant after adjusting with False Discovery Rate (FDR).
TBI severity was not included in the correlation test because its score ranges very little.