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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2013 May 25;21(10):2007–2013. doi: 10.1002/oby.20332

Table 2.

Bivariate correlations between cerebral metabolite concentrations and demographic variables

n=64
Mean±SD
Age
r (p)
Sex
r (p)
BMI
r (p)
NAA/Cr 1.41±0.10 0.15 (.239) 0.12 (.348) 0.04 (.748)
Cho/Cr 0.19±0.04 −0.08 (.553) 0.20 (.106) 0.07 (.601)
mI/Cr 0.74±0.09 −0.04 (.731) 0.25 (.050) 0.29 (.020)
Glu/Cr 1.45±0.16 0.07 (.559) −0.06 (.656) 0.23 (.063)

NAA=N-acetyl-aspartate; Cr=creatine+phosphocreatine; Cho=choline+phosphocholine; mI=myo-inositol; Glu=glutamate