Table 4.

Male and female specific scaling factors and exponents (males N = 2300; females N = 1809)

	Males scaling factor, AE	Females scaling factor, AE	Males indexed LA (mean ± SD)	Females indexed LA (mean ± SD)	P-value (male vs. female)
LA size/aBWx	10.665, 0.255	10.740, 0.246	1.008 ± 0.118	1.009 ± 0.124	0.81
LA size/bHTy	21.846, 0.596	21.499, 0.580	1.008 ± 0.123	1.008 ± 0.130	0.87
LA size/cBMIz	4.586, 0.593	4.217, 0.609	1.015 ± 0.164	1.014 ± 0.158	0.83
LA size/dBSAw	25.128, 0.351	24.582, 0.341	1.007 ± 0.119	1.009 ± 0.126	0.75
LA size/f	11.811, 0.219, 0.090	10.186, 0.265, −0.047	1.005 ± 0.118	1.009 ± 0.124	0.37

AE, allometric exponent.