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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Obes. 2014 Nov 18;10(4):320–327. doi: 10.1111/ijpo.270

Table 4.

Association of metabolites with childhood obesity–related cardiometabolic traits (r= correlation between a given pair of traits)

Trait BMI WC HDL TRIG SBP DBP HOMA
r (P-Value)a r (P-Value)a r (P-Value)a r (P-Value)a r (P-Value)a r (P-Value)a r (P-Value)a
L-Thyronine −0.471 (0.002) −0.35 (0.023) 0.39 (0.010) −0.32 (0.036) −0.31 (0.049) −0.32 (0.041) −0.17 (0.277)
Bradykinin 0.565 (<0.001) 0.53 (<0.001) −0.51 (0.001) 0.45 (0.003) 0.31 (0.045) 0.24 (0.124) 0.29 (0.061)
Indole-3-propionic acid −0.518(<0.001) −0.46 (0.002) 0.33 (0.035) −0.09 (0.569) −0.003 (0.984) −0.03 (0.835) 0.13 (0.399)
Naringenin −0.652 (<0.001) −0.62 (<0.001) 0.34 (0.028) −0.51 (0.001) −0.31 (0.043) −0.34 (0.030) −0.42 (0.006)
2-Methylbutyroylcarnitine −0.177(0.2621) −0.22 (0.168) 0.11 (0.474) −0.05 (0.754) 0.09 (0.568) 0.22 (0.157) 0.15 (0.331)
3-Hydroxyquinine −0.510 (<0.001) −0.59 (<0.001) 0.39 (0.011) −0.58 (<0.001) 0.32 (0.041) −0.23 (0.153) −0.33 (0.034)
Vitamin D3b −0.452 (0.003) −0.44 (0.004) 0.26 (0.102) −0.48 (0.001) −0.45 (0.003) −0.44 (0.003) −0.47 (0.002)
Lyso-PC −0.403 (0.008) −0.42 (0.006) 0.24 (0.133) −0.31 (0.049) −0.17 (0.281) −0.01 (0.977) 0.11 (0.493)
Calicoferol B −0.398 (0.009) −0.50 (0.001) 0.08 (0.628) −0.29 (0.059) −0.16 (0.300) −0.09 (0.536) −0.26 (0.102)
Diglyceride (DG) −0.468 (002) −0.36 (0.020) 0.48 (0.001) −0.41 (0.008) −0.19 (0.231) −0.24 (0.122) 0.004 (0.979)
Malvidin3-(6-acetylglucoside) −0.515 (<0.001) −0.52 (<0.001) 0.10 (0.545) −0.36 (0.020) −0.26 (0.092) −0.27 (0.090) −0.22 (0.159)
Linoleic acid −0.529 (<0.001) −0.52 (<0.001) 0.13 (0.413) −0.35 (0.024) −0.31 (0.049) −0.29 (0.0610 −0.18 (0.252)
Phosphotidylethanolamine 0.459 (0.002) 0.45 (0.003) −0.35 (0.021) 0.64 (<0.001) 0.48 (0.001) 0.63 (<0.001) 0.27 (0.079)
Phosphocholine (16:1) 0.473 (0.002) 0.47 (0.002) −0.56 (<0.001) 0.60 (<0.001) 0.24 (0.122) 0.44 (0.004) 0.19 (0.237)
a

Significant after accounting for multiple testing are shown in bold/italic and correlations with nominal significance are shown in bold;

b

1α,22-dihydroxy-23,24,25,26,27-pentanorvitamin D3 / 1α,22-dihydroxy-23,24,25,26,27-pentanorcholecalciferol.

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