ZHENG May Contribute to Obesity Phenotypes Based on Body Composition: A Pilot Study on the Traditional Chinese Medicine Approach

Table 2

Correlation between age and body composition.

Spearman’s rho		Weight	Total FM	FMi	FFM	FFMi	Trunk FM	Trunk FFM	Appendicular FM	Appendicular FFM
Age	Correlation	−0.057	−0.007	−0.081	−0.054	0.025	0.040	0.033	−0.174*	−0.090
	𝑃 value; (2-tailed)	0.504	0.933	0.351	0.532	0.774	0.643	0.708	0.043	0.302

Spearman test was used to check the relationship between age and body composition phenotype.
FM: fat mass; FFM: fat free mass; FMi: fat mass index; FFMi: fat free mass index.
∗Refers to correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).