Table 4.

Spearman correlation coefficients between cC-GFR, AER, and serum markers of inflammation and apoptosis in the study group

	AER	TNFα	sTNFR1	sTNFR2	sFas	IP-10	sICAM
cC-GFR	−0.31	−0.15	−0.57	−0.56	−0.27	−0.13a	−0.17
AER	1.00	0.11	0.41	0.28	0.04c	−0.12b	0.20
TNFa	1.00	0.11a	0.20	0.34	0.19	0.17
sTNFR1	1.00	0.81	0.26	0.20	0.21
sTNFR2	1.00	0.32	0.26	0.27
sFas	1.00	0.14a	0.12a
IP-10	1.00	0.14a
sICAM	1.00

^aP < 0.01,

^bP < 0.05,

^cP = NS, otherwise all other P < 0.0001.