Table 2.

Correlations among infant serum adiponectin, maternal serum adiponectin, milk adiponectin and infant anthropometry in the first year of life

		Adiponectin		Anthropometry
	N	Maternal baseline serum APN	Median milk APN	Infant WFL Z-score	Infant WEI Z-score	Infant LEN Z-score
Infant serum APN at:
Baseline	87	0.29**	0.04	0.02	0.11	0.002
3 months	84	0.20	0.22*	−0.02	−0.20	−0.23*
6 months	66	0.32**	0.38**	0.07	−0.06	−0.09*
12 months	55	0.18	0.28*	−0.26	−0.34**	−0.40**
Median infant serum APN	92	0.28**	0.25**	−0.08 0.03 0.01 −0.16	−0.16 −0.06 −0.12 −0.19	−0.003 −0.11 −0.17 −0.24*
Maternal baseline serum APN	274	--	0.37***	−0.11 −0.07 −0.17** −0.09	−0.15** −0.15** −0.14* −0.12	−0.11 −0.10 0.01 −0.08
Median milk APN	276	--	--	−0.11 −0.15* −0.14* −0.07	−0.17** −0.20** −0.14* −0.04	−0.13* −0.10 −0.09 −0.02

Unadjusted Spearman rank correlations presented. The 4 values in each box in the lower right panel correspond to correlations of adiponectin values with indicated z-scores at 0, 3, 6 and 12 months, respectively.

^*p≤0.05

^**p≤0.01

^***p≤0.0001