Table 2.

Simple correlation between leptin levels (log-transformed) and clinical characteristics

	Pearson correlation coefficient	P value
Age	0.095	0.02
Body mass index	0.434	<0.001
Waist circumference	0.113	0.006
HOMA-IR (log)	0.337	<0.001
Systolic blood pressure	0.140	0.001
Diastolic blood pressure	0.011	0.80
Total cholesterol	0.261	<0.001
HDLc	0.033	0.42
LDLc	0.218	<0.001
Triglycerides (log)	0.287	<0.001
Fasting plasma glucose	0.018	0.66
eGFR	0.030	0.46