Research Paper Volume 12, Issue 15 pp 15302—15313

Figure 1. The correlations among concentrations of serum metabolites (A) and the correlation matrix between the concentrations of metabolites and cardiovascular disease risk factors (B). A partial Spearman correlation analysis was used to calculate the correlation coefficients, adjusting for age and sex. The significance threshold was set at ^*p<0.05, ^**p<0.01, and ^***p<0.001 after correcting for the false discovery rate. Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; HDL–C, high–density lipoprotein cholesterol; GLU, serum glucose; HTDmed, use of antihypertensive medications; LDL–C, low–density lipoprotein cholesterol; SBP, systolic blood pressure.