. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 31.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Cardiol. 2007 Dec 21;101(3):401–406. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.08.041

Table 2.

Correlation coefficients^* between C-reactive protein (CRP) and other risk factors

Variable	Parametric Pearson	Nonparameteric Spearman
Age	0.06	0.16
Serum creatinine	−0.02	−0.10
Glomerular filtration rate	0.0005	−0.04
Urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio	0.08	0.13
Total cholesterol	0.007	0.14
High-density lipoprotein cholesterol	−0.04	−0.13
Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol	−0.01	0.10
Triglycerides	0.04	0.25

Weighted.