Table 2.

Spearman's rank correlation coefficients for the relationships among the 12 metabolites in the control population

	Xylitol	1,5‐AG	Histidine	Inositol	Threonine	Methionine	Arabinose	Asparagine	Glutamine	Lysine	Tyrosine	Uric acid
Xylitol	1.00	−0.04 (.44)	−0.02 (.70)	0.09 (.09)	0.05 (.40)	0.05 (.37)	0.06 (.27)	0.15 (.006)	−0.03 (.56)	−0.06 (.27)	0.02 (.67)	−0.0005 (.99)
1,5‐AG		1.00	0.16 (.003)	0.07 (.18)	0.15 (.005)	0.16 (.003)	0.25 (<.0001)	0.25 (<.0001)	0.17 (.002)	0.12 (.02)	0.18 (.0007)	0.24 (<.0001)
Histidine			1.00	0.41 (<.0001)	0.66 (<.0001)	0.68 (<.0001)	0.26 (<.0001)	0.70 (<.0001)	0.66 (<.0001)	0.71 (<.0001)	0.56 (<.0001)	0.30 (<.0001)
Inositol				1.00	0.20 (.0002)	0.28 (<.0001)	0.48 (<.0001)	0.37 (<.0001)	0.35 (<.0001)	0.33 (<.0001)	0.31 (<.0001)	0.29 (<.0001)
Threonine					1.00	0.76 (<.0001)	0.15 (.004)	0.70 (<.0001)	0.54 (<.0001)	0.60 (<.0001)	0.52 (<.0001)	0.23 (<.0001)
Methionine						1.00	0.23 (<.0001)	0.70 (<.0001)	0.53 (<.0001)	0.72 (<.0001)	0.69 (<.0001)	0.27 (<.0001)
Arabinose							1.00	0.30 (<.0001)	0.18 (.0008)	0.17 (.002)	0.31 (<.0001)	0.12 (.03)
Asparagine								1.00	0.60 (<.0001)	0.61 (<.0001)	0.50 (<.0001)	0.16 (.004)
Glutamine									1.00	0.56 (<.0001)	0.49 (<.0001)	0.21 (.0001)
Lysine										1.00	0.58 (<.0001)	0.37 (<.0001)
Tyrosine											1.00	0.28 (<.0001)
Uric acid												1.00

P‐values are shown in parentheses.

1,5‐AG, 1,5‐anhydro‐d‐glucitol.