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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2016 Apr 28;24(6):1283–1289. doi: 10.1002/oby.21500

Table 3.

Spearman's partial correlation analysis (r_s values) between segmented brain measures & cardiometabolic factors independent of age and sex

Measures	WHtR	QUICKI	VO₂ max
OFC gray matter volume	−0.16	0.21	0.13
ACC gray matter volume	−0.26^*	0.36^***	0.29^*
rMFG gray matter volume	−0.02	0.10	0.06
OFC cortical thickness	−0.16	0.19	0.16
ACC cortical thickness	−0.14	0.30^**	0.20
rMFG cortical thickness	0.02	0.13	0.16

p < .05

^**

p < .01

^***

p = .001.

ICV, intracranial vault; OFC, orbitofrontal cortex; ACC, anterior cingulate cortex; rMFG, rostral middle frontal gyrus.