Table 5.

Correlations between mother’s anthropometric measurements, and leptin levels in breast milk and maternal serum.

	Leptin level in breast milk						Leptin level in maternal serum
	1st Month		3rd Month		6th Month		1st Month		3rd Month		6th Month
	r	p*	r	p*	r	p*	r	p*	r	p*	r	p*
Body weight (kg)
1st Month	0.687	.000	0.735	.000	0.737	.000	0.533	.000	0.695	.000	0.826	.000
3rd Month	0.694	.000	0.741	.000	0.744	.000	0.580	.000	0.702	.000	0.800	.000
6th Month	0.686	.000	0.706	.000	0.709	.000	0.580	.000	0.694	.000	0.788	.000
BMI (kg/m2)
1st Month	0.758	.000	0.832	.000	0.832	.000	0.564	.000	0.767	.000	0.918	.000
3rd Month	0.773	.000	0.842	.000	0.842	.000	0.576	.000	0.783	.000	0.888	.000
6th Month	0.733	.000	0.775	.000	0.775	.000	0.582	.000	0.743	.000	0.854	.000
Waist circumference (cm)
1st Month	0.509	.000	0.443	.000	0.439	.000	0.480	.000	0.515	.000	0.654	.000
3rd Month	0.483	.000	0.401	.001	0.396	.001	0.452	.000	0.490	.000	0.623	.000
6th Month	0.501	.000	0.399	.001	0.396	.001	0.421	.000	0.505	.000	0.65	.000
Hip circumference (cm)
1st Month	0.371	.002	0.251	.044	0.371	.002	0.332	.007	0.575	.000	0.575	.000
3rd Month	0.397	.001	0.280	.024	0.398	.001	0.360	.003	0.571	.000	0.571	.000
6th Month	0.398	.001	0.258	.038	0.398	.001	0.327	.008	0.575	.000	0.575	.000
Upper middle arm circumference (cm)
1st Month	0.451	.000	0.441	.000	0.446	.000	0.172	.171	0.448	.000	0.437	.000
3rd Month	0.418	.001	0.435	.000	0.434	.000	0.189	.131	0.419	.001	0.335	.006
6th Month	0.383	.002	0.378	.002	0.376	.002	0.114	.364	0.385	.002	0.339	.006

*Spearmen correlation test.