TABLE 3.

Correlation (P value) between baseline measurement and all subsequent follow-up measurements for CIR and NIR in plasma and RBCs (n = 32)¹

	Week on intervention
Biomarker	2	4	6	8	10	12
CIR plasma	0.72 (<0.001)	0.53 (0.001)	0.40 (0.023)	0.27 (0.133)	0.31 (0.083)	0.21 (0.256)
NIR plasma	0.62 (<0.001)	0.49 (0.004)	0.45 (0.009)	0.38 (0.031)	0.26 (0.149)	0.31 (0.090)
CIR RBC	0.94 (<0.001)	0.89 (<0.001)	0.83 (<0.001)	0.79 (<0.001)	0.70 (<0.001)	0.66 (<0.001)
NIR RBC	0.88 (<0.001)	0.88 (<0.001)	0.77 (<0.001)	0.78 (<0.001)	0.65 (<0.001)	0.58 (<0.001)

¹ P values from the Fisher z transformation test.