. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: West J Nurs Res. 2019 Jan 7;41(11):1602–1622. doi: 10.1177/0193945918820672

Table 6.

Correlations between changes in body composition (body weight/adiposity) and changes in blood estrone (E1) and estradiol (E2) (N = 13).

	Hormone changes from baseline to 6 months		Hormone changes from baseline to 9 months
	Serum estrone (E1)	Serum estradiol (E2)	Serum estrone(E1)	Serum estradiol (E2)

Body composition changes from baseline to 6 months
Body Weight	.685^**	.471	.261	.568
Adiposity	.458	.486^*	.201	.415
Body Mass Index (BMI)	-.225	-.327	.064	-.490
Waist Circumference (WC)	.125	-.029	.584^*	.284
Body composition changes from baseline to 9 months
Body Weight	NA	NA	.322	.167
Adiposity	NA	NA	.418	.274
Body Mass Index (BMI)	NA	NA	.125	.089
Waist Circumference (WC)	NA	NA	.591^*	.420

Note. NA = not applicable. Data were presented with Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient (i.e., Spearman’s rho). For this post-hoc analysis, we combined control and intervention groups (N = 13). p-values were determined using rank-transformation using a Spearman correlation test with adjustments for baseline values of body composition and serum E1 and E2.

p < 0.05,

^**

p < 0.01