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. 2020 Jan 14;7:548. doi: 10.3389/fped.2019.00548

Table 4.

Bivariate correlations between adiposity measures and neuropsychological outcomes.

BMI-for-age
%ile
Whole body %Fat Visceral adipose tissue
General Intellectual Ability r −0.12 0.07 −0.11
P 0.20 0.31 0.23
Memory for names r −0.01 0.01 0.10
P 0.48 0.47 0.25
Sound blending r 0.16 0.23 0.12
P 0.13 0.06 0.21
Verbal analogies r −0.18 0.04 −0.19
P 0.11 0.39 0.10
Visual closure r 0.02 0.01 −0.08
P 0.44 0.48 0.29
Rapid picture naming r −0.16 −0.19 −0.07
P 0.12 0.10 0.32
Early academic skills r −0.14 −0.10 −0.28*
P 0.17 0.24 0.03
Letter word recognition r −0.13 −0.08 −0.24*
P 0.18 0.30 0.05
Number sense r −0.19 −0.11 −0.16
P 0.09 0.23 0.14
Writing r −0.06 −0.08 −0.27*
P 0.34 0.29 0.03
Expressive language r −0.27* −0.16 −0.26*
P 0.03 0.15 0.04
aPicture vocabulary r −0.08 0.11 −0.26*
P 0.29 0.23 0.04
aSentence repetition r −0.21 −0.05 −0.13
P 0.07 0.36 0.20
*

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (1-tailed).

a

Tests also included in the General Intellectual Ability-Early Development cluster.