Table 4.

Spearman’s correlations of myokine concentrations with anthropometric parameters, nutritional parameters, and adipokine levels in vegetarian and omnivorous children.

Variables	Vegetarians				Omnivores
	Myostatin		Irisin		Myostatin		Irisin
	r	p	r	p	r	p	r	p
Anthropometric parameters:
BMI	0.116	0.397	0.125	0.364	0.021	0.888	−0.088	0.544
Fat mass	−0.002	0.989	0.081	0.555	0.105	0.466	0.038	0.791
Fat (%)	0.070	0.609	0.103	0.452	0.402	0.004	−0.077	0.594
Lean mass	−0.019	0.890	−0.266	0.049	0.015	0.917	0.221	0.122
Fat/lean mass ratio	0.020	0.882	0.133	0.334	0.090	0.536	−0.113	0.435
BMC	−0.146	0.289	−0.269	0.047	−0.009	0.952	0.073	0.615
Nutritional parameters:
Total energy intake	0.029	0.840	0.185	0.189	−0.048	0.752	−0.100	0.515
Percentage of energy from protein	−0.338	0.014	−0.128	0.366	0.113	0.460	−0.118	0.441
Percentage of energy from fat	0.083	0.559	−0.208	0.140	−0.294	0.050	0.017	0.914
Percentage of energy from carbohydrates	0.045	0.753	0.254	0.070	0.243	0.108	0.086	0.574
Dietary fiber	−0.015	0.919	0.042	0.770	−0.063	0.681	0.037	0.810
Dietary calcium	−0.278	0.046	0.105	0.457	0.128	0.403	−0.016	0.919
Dietary phosphorus	−0.100	0.480	0.169	0.231	0.067	0.660	−0.159	0.296
Dietary magnesium	0.021	0.883	0.187	0.184	0.011	0.945	−0.231	0.127
Dietary manganese	0.101	0.475	0.005	0.972	0.030	0.844	−0.160	0.295
Dietary vitamin A	−0.304	0.028	−0.013	0.925	−0.040	0.759	0.233	0.129
Dietary vitamin B12	−0.207	0.140	0.049	0.731	0.085	0.579	−0.070	0.649
Dietary vitamin C	0.034	0.810	0.192	0.173	−0.306	0.041	0.044	0.776
Dietary vitamin D	−0.161	0.254	0.044	0.755	−0.149	0.329	0.102	0.505
Dietary vitamin E	0.155	0.272	−0.006	0.965	−0.343	0.021	−0.089	0.562
Adipokines:
Omentin	0.415	0.002	−0.072	0.603	0.455	0.002	0.300	0.045
Nampt visfatin	−0.015	0.912	−0.282	0.037	−0.094	0.515	−0.214	0.135
Leptin	0.053	0.701	−0.036	0.796	0.162	0.618	0.114	0.431
Adiponectin	0.005	0.973	−0.058	0.675	0.072	0.618	0.102	0.479

BMI—body mass index, BMC—bone mineral content.