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Table 5 Relationship between total energy expenditure, body size, and body composition based on correlation and partial correlation coefficients

From: Determining total energy expenditure in 3–6-year-old Japanese pre-school children using the doubly labeled water method

Subject

n

Covariates

Height

Weight

FFM

FM

%fat

All

140

none

0.465**

0.473**

0.491**

0.243**

 − 0.032

  

Age

0.324***

0.342***

0.361***

0.189*

0.054

  

FFM

0.068

0.063

-

0.063

0.080

  

FFM and FM

0.058

0.000

-

-

0.077

  1. * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01, *** p < 0.001