Table 1.

Correlation of plamsa leptin, leptin soluble receptor (sOB-R), and sOB-R:Leptin ratio with anthopometric measurements and their Z scores in term infants

	Leptin ng/mL	Leptin soluble receptor ng/mL	sOB-R:Leptin molar ratio
Absolute measurements
Weight	-0.29	0.29	-0.14
Length	-0.44*	0.23	-0.30
Weight:length ratio	0.45*	-0.25	0.30
Z scores
Weight	0.58*	0.22	0.66*
Length	0.05	0.29	0.21
Weight for length	0.57*	0.17	0.62*

Pearson correlation with 2 tailed significance: * p ≤ 0.01