Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 4 Correlation between highest SUVmax and TMA of activated BAT, and patient’s age, level of Ki-67 expression, BMI, outdoor temperature, tumor size, and primary SUVmax

From: Brown adipose tissue (BAT) activation at ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT: correlation with clinicopathological characteristics in breast cancer

Parameter	Highest BAT SUVmax		BAT TMA
Parameter	r^a	P value	r^a	P value
Age/years	− 0.228	0.396	− 0.002	0.994
Level of Ki-67 expression	− 0.271	0.480	0.399	0.287
BMI	− 0.175	0.517	0.255	0.36
Outdoor temperature	0.021	0.937	− 0.036	0.894
Tumor size in cm	− 0.103	0738	− 0.078	0.8
Primary SUVmax	0.226	0.529	0.289	0.418

^aPerson correlation coefficient
SUVmax maximum standardized uptake value, TMA total metabolic activity

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