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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hum Brain Mapp. 2014 Sep 3;36(1):170–186. doi: 10.1002/hbm.22620

TABLE 2.

Associations of global brain properties with alcohol and four other predictors.

Variable alc age Predictors sex cig mat. age
r β r β r β r β r β
Brain volume −0.26 −0.36* 0.76*** 0.77*** −0.39 −0.21 −0.08 −0.14 −0.40 −0.13
WM volume −0.30 −0.21 0.65** 0.54* −0.35 −0.24 −0.07 −0.03 −0.51* −0.23
WM fraction −0.14 0.12 0.03 −0.15 −0.04 −0.09 −0.04 −0.11 −0.30 −0.52

For each predictor, r represents the simple correlation between each predictor and the outcome; β is the standardized regression coefficient after adjustment for all the other predictors;

*

p<0.05;

**

p<0.01;

***

p<0.001.

alc = frequency of maternal drinking; age = infant age since conception; sex: male=1, female=2; cig = maternal smoking (cig/day); mat. age