Table 7.

Correlations between biochemical markers in T2DM patients (n = 129).

-		TGF-β	IL-17	Zn	Cu	Mg	Cu/Zn Ratio	miRNA-375 Fold Change
Serum glucose	r	−0.1	−0.1	−0.009	−0.15	−0.708	−0.046	−0.180
	p	0.199	0.194	0.920	0.081	<0.001	0.606	0.044
HBCA1	r	−0.240	−0.262	−0.168	0.068	−0.248	0.134	−0.304
	p	0.006	0.003	0.058	0.443	0.005	0.130	0.000
eGFR	r	0.189	0.414	0.210	−0.196	0.373	−0.285	0.356
	p	0.033	0.000	0.017	0.026	<0.001	0.001	0.000
Creatinine	r	−0.273	−0.366	−0.222	0.351	−0.476	0.391	−0.370
	p	0.002	0.000	0.011	0.000	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Serum urea	r	−0.296	−0.402	−0.200	0.220	−0.600	0.293	−0.39
	p	0.001	0.000	0.023	0.012	<0.001	0.001	<0.001
Serum albumin	r	0.132	0.177	0.146	−0.068	0.403	−0.170	0.285
	p	0.137	0.046	0.099	0.441	<0.001	0.055	0.008
Albuminuria	r	−0.416	−0.504	−0.138	0.243	−0.374	0.230	−0.436
	p	0.000	0.000	0.119	0.005	<0.001	0.009	<0.001
TGF-β	r	1	0.469	0.133	−0.205	0.149	−0.205	0.205
	p	-	0.000	0.135	0.021	0.093	0.021	0.020
IL-17	r	0.469	1	0.044	−0.151	0.224	−0.151	0.215
	p	0.000	-	0.623	0.088	0.011	0.088	0.015
Zn	r	0.133	0.044	1	−0.787	0.185	−0.787	0.180
	p	0.135	0.623	-	0.000	0.036	0.000	0.042
Cu	r	−0.205	−0.151	−0.787	1	−0.182	1.000	−0.239
	p	0.021	0.088	0.000	-	0.039	0.000	0.006
Mg	r	0.149	0.224	0.185	−0.182	1	−0.351	0.258
	p	0.093	0.011	0.036	0.039	-	0.000	0.003
Cu/Zn	r	−0.205	−0.151	−0.787	1.000	−0.351	1	−0.239
	p	0.021	0.088	0.000	0.000	0.000	-	−0.006
miRNA-375	r	0.205	0.215	0.180	−0.239	0.258	−0.239	1
	p	0.020	0.015	0.042	0.006	0.003	0.006	-

Correlations were determined with the Pearson correlation test. Two-tailed p-values less than 0.05 and less than 0.001 were considered significant. r: correlation coefficient.