Figure 1.
Correlation between metabolites and body mass index (BMI) in the PLCO. Spearman’s partial correlation was used to adjust for age, sex, smoking status, and pack-years of smoking. The metabolites above the horizontal line had a statistically significant correlation with BMI (p FDR < 0.05). Abbreviations: PLCO, Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial; FDR, false discovery rate.