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Table 3 Spearman’s zero- and first-order Spearman rank correlation coefficients between the pain scores and the plasma lipid concentrations

From: Association between plasma concentrations of linoleic acid-derived oxylipins and the perceived pain scores in an exploratory study in women with chronic neck pain

Parameter:

NRSday

NRSday

NRSday

NRSweek

Pain duration

Pain Group:

NP

CWP

NP + CWP

NP + CWP

NP + CWP

Controlling for:

-

time

BMI

-

-

-

-

N:

35

31

34

15

50

50

48

2-AG

0.05

0.06

0.14

−0.43

−0.10

−0.08

0.07

AEA

0.16

0.13

0.23

0.14

0.11

0.22

−0.05

PEA

−0.03

0.03

−0.01

0.21

0.01

0.12

−0.10

SEA

0.14

0.23

0.18

0.12

0.13

0.05

−0.07

OEA

0.20

0.23

0.16

0.39

0.25

0.16

−0.10

LEA

0.08

0.14

0.05

0.15

0.11

0.23

−0.17

9-HODE

0.51**

0.49**

0.56***

0.28

0.43**

0.06

0.06

13-HODE

0.53**

0.54**

0.54**

0.13

0.35*

−0.01

−0.12

9,10-DiHOME

0.34*

0.33

0.30

−0.13

0.11

0.06

−0.19

12,13-DiHOME

0.36*

0.34

0.33

−0.10

0.13

0.07

−0.16

9,10,13-TriHOME

0.09

0.06

0.05

0.32

0.13

−0.10

−0.08

9,12,13-TriHOME

0.22

0.14

0.20

0.16

0.19

−0.08

0.01

13-oxo-ODE

0.40*

0.38*

0.46**

−0.08

0.23

0.05

−0.15

5-HETE

0.00

−0.06

0.04

−0.14

−0.03

0.02

0.08

8,9-DiHETrE

0.15

0.11

0.18

0.15

0.12

0.09

−0.01

  1. Zero-order correlations are shown where the symbol “-“is given in the row “Controlling for”. First-order correlations controlling for the exact time of day of sampling or for BM were calculated according to the method of Lehmann [33]
  2. ***P < 0.001, **P < 0.01, *P < 0.05, otherwise not significant