Table 3.

Raw and Maternal-BMI-adjusted Spearman Correlations between Breast Milk Analytes and Infant Body Composition measured at 1 month, N=19 mother-infant dyads.

Infant Growth and Body Composition Variables	Breast Milk Analytes
	Glucose		Ln Insulin		Ln Leptin		Ln TNF-α		Ln IL-6
	Raw	Adjusted	Raw	Adjusted	Raw	Adjusted	Raw	Adjusted	Raw	Adjusted
Weight	0.39 (p=0.10)	0.36	−0.33	−0.49 (p=0.06)	0.13	−0.37	−0.40	−0.41	−0.43 (p=0.08)	−0.40
Length	0.02	−0.02	−0.03	−0.10	0.27	0.10	−0.14	−0.14	0.07	0.11
WHO WLZ	0.58 (p=0.01)	0.60 (p=0.01)	−0.30	−0.51 (p=0.05)	−0.07	−0.44 (p=0.08)	−0.33	−0.35	−0.63 (p=0.007)	−0.62 (p=0.01)
WHO BMIZ	0.54 (p=0.02)	0.55 (p=0.03)	−0.37	−0.58 (p=0.02)	−0.04	−0.54 (p=0.03)	−0.36	−0.39	−0.70 (p=0.002)	−0.70 (p=0.003)
Weight gain 0 – 1 month	0.31	0.33	0.15	0.08	0.52 (p=0.03)	−0.05	−0.20	−0.29	−0.51 (p=0.04)	−0.58 (p=0.02)
%fat	0.128	0.18	−0.04	−0.18	0.19	−0.26	−0.08	−0.06	−0.56 (p=0.02)	−0.55 (p=0.03)
Total Fat Mass	0.45 (p=0.05)	0.43 (p=0.10)	−0.17	−0.37	0.28	−0.28	−0.32	−0.35	−0.61 (p=0.01)	−0.61 (p=0.01)
Trunk Fat Mass	0.23	0.14	−0.08	−0.24	0.28	−0.37	−0.21	−0.22	−0.44 (p=0.08)	−0.42
Total Lean Mass	0.44 (p=0.06)	0.44 (p=0.09)	−0.33	−0.53 (p=0.03)	0.20	−0.21	−0.45 (p=0.06)	−0.50 (p=0.05)	−0.30	−0.26

WHO WLZ (Weight-for-length z-score; z-scores based on WHO 2006 growth charts)

WHO BMIZ (BMI-for-age z-score; z-scores based on WHO 2006 growth charts)