Table 4

Correlations of maternal BMI with foremilk and hindmilk hormone concentrations at 1 week and 3 months postpartum

	Ghrelin	Insulin	Leptin	Resistin
Foremilk at 1 week
Spearman correlation	−0.04	0.00	0.31	−0.04
Significance (two-tailed)	0.66	0.95	0.02	0.70
N	95	103	103	104
Hindmilk at 1 week
Spearman correlation	0.04	0.04	<0.00	−0.01
Significance (two-tailed)	0.73	0.74	0.96	0.90
N	81	90	90	89
Foremilk at 3 months
Spearman correlation	0.20	0.22	0.30	−0.01
Significance (two-tailed)	0.07	0.04	<0.00	0.87
N	83	92	92	91
Hindmilk at 3 months
Spearman correlation	−0.06	−0.05	−0.04	−0.09
Significance (two-tailed)	0.61	0.63	0.72	0.45
N	66	81	81	79