BMC Endocrine Disorders

Table 3 Correlation Analysis between miRNA and Obesity Metrics (BMI, FMP, and Age)

From: Identification of novel circulating miRNAs biomarkers for healthy obese and lean children

		hsa-miR-126-3p	hsa-miR-15b-5p	hsa-miR-199a-3p	hsa-miR-20a-5p	hsa-miR-223-3p	hsa-miR-24-3p
Age	r	0.052	0.193	0.144	0.146	0.109	0.083
Age	p	0.797	0.336	0.475	0.468	0.589	0.681
BMI	r	0.493^**	0.550^**	0.520^**	0.506^**	0.370	0.520^**
BMI	p	0.009	0.003	0.005	0.007	0.058	0.005
FMP	r	0.534^**	0.518^**	0.515^**	0.472^*	0.348	0.534^**
FMP	p	0.004	0.006	0.006	0.013	0.075	0.004

Note: * is the rank correlation coefficient, P < 0.05, and * * is the rank correlation coefficient, P < 0.01
Abbreviations: r, Pearson’s correlation analysis; p, p-value

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