Table 2.

Spearman’s correlation between serum Metrnl and clinical variables

Variables	Metrnl
(n = 772)	r	P
Age	– 0.120	0.001
BMI	– 0.083	0.021
FBG	– 0.095	0.008
ALT	0.025	0.489
AST	– 0.036	0.315
TBil	0.068	0.060
Scr	0.060	0.097
BUN	– 0.124	0.001
TC	– 0.062	0.083
TG	– 0.090	0.013
LDL-C	– 0.002	0.950
HDL-C	– 0.109	0.002
hs-CRP	– 0.435	< 0.001

ALT alanine transaminase, ASMI appendicular skeletal muscle mass index, AST aspartate aminotransferase, BMI body mass index, BUN blood urea nitrogen, FBG fasting blood glucose, HDL-C high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, hs-CRP hypersensitive C-reactive protein, LDL-C low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, Metrnl Meteorin-like, Scr serum creatinine, TBil total bilirubin, TC total cholesterol, TG triglyceride