Table 2. Correlations between expression levels of key hunger genes and circulating hormones.

	Leptin		TNF-α		Insulin		IL6		Resistin		IGF-1
	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value	r	p-value
Agrp	−0.741	<0.001	−0.362	0.053	−0.494	0.006	0.271	0.155	−0.010	0.961	−0.502	0.006
Cartpt	0.382	0.041	0.340	0.071	0.200	0.298	0.025	0.899	−0.071	0.715	0.384	0.039
Pomc	0.282	0.138	0.145	0.454	−0.011	0.955	0.294	0.121	−0.461	0.012	0.474	0.009
Npy	−0.629	<0.001	−0.384	0.040	−0.524	0.004	0.172	0.371	0.119	0.539	−0.445	0.016