TABLE 2.

Parsimonious and full model comparison: maternal sFFA concentration during pregnancy and infant HTH MD

	Parsimonious model			Full model
Independent variable	$\widehat{\beta }$	${R^2}_{\mathit{\text{partial}}}$	p	$\widehat{\beta }$	${R^2}_{\mathit{\text{partial}}}$	p
sFFA concentration	0.25	8.3%	0.006	0.23	8.1%	0.008
Gestational age at birth	0.13	1.0%	0.361	0.00	0.0%	0.943
Postnatal age at scan	0.17	1.7%	0.226	0.06	0.2%	0.665
Infant sex (male)	0.11	0.4%	0.543	0.09	0.3%	0.612
White matter MD	0.57	14.4%	<0.001	0.47	11.1%	0.002
QC (framewise displacement)	0.22	6.3%	0.017	0.15	3.2%	0.097
Socioeconomic status	na	na	na	0.21	5.3%	0.033
Hispanic (yes)	na	na	na	0.56	10.9%	0.002
OB risk (yes)	na	na	na	−0.34	4.3%	0.056

Note: Maternal sFFA concentration during pregnancy was associated with infant HTH MD.

Abbreviations: HTH, hypothalamic; MD, mean diffusivity; na, not applicable; OB, obesity; QC, quality control; sFFA, saturated free fatty acid.