Table 4.
Correlations (r) between potentially modifiable “predictor” variables, and between these continuous variables and plasma zinc concentration.
| Potentially Modifiable “Predictor” Variables | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plasma Zinc | Energy | Zinc | Red Meat | MFP | Infant Formula | Food Fussiness | ||
| Potentially modifiable “predictor” variables | Plasma zinc | - | ||||||
| Energy | 0.18 | - | ||||||
| Zinc | 0.27 * | 0.82 ** | - | |||||
| Red meat | 0.24 * | 0.59 ** | 0.73 ** | - | ||||
| MFP | 0.24 * | 0.53 ** | 0.70 ** | 0.70 ** | - | |||
| Food fussiness | −0.18 | −0.15 | −0.07 | −0.01 | 0.01 | 0.10 | - | |
Abbreviations: MFP, “meat, fish, poultry”. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.001.