Research Article

Plasma Energy-Balance Metabolites Discriminate Asymptomatic Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease

Table 6

Spearman’s correlation coefficients for age, body mass index, and related metabolites.

AgeBMI
Spearman’s rho valueSpearman’s rho value

3-Hydroxybutirate0.057ns0.022ns
Aconitate0.2050.003−0.2360.010
α-Ketoglutarate0.054ns−0.031ns
Alanine−0.081ns0.2300.013
Aspartate0.083ns0.2560.005
(Iso)citrate0.113ns0.147ns
Fumarate0.2200.002−0.085ns
Glucose−0.031ns0.2020.029
Glutamate0.063ns−0.032ns
Glutamine0.007ns0.157ns
Isoleucine0.124ns0.1940.036
Lactate−0.023ns0.034ns
Leucine−0.005ns0.2200.017
Malate0.248<0.001−0.079ns
Pyruvate−0.009ns0.103ns
Serine0.062ns−0.112ns
Succinate0.011ns−0.145ns
Succinyl-CoA0.038ns0.134ns
Valine−0.122ns0.2410.009

BMI: Body mass index; ns: not significant.