Table 2. Spearman's correlation coefficient of inflammatory markers with uric acid according to sex.

	Male		Female
	r	p-value	r	p-value	P-value*
IL-1β	−0.05	0.014	−0.07	<0.001	0.286
IL-6	0.04	0.036	0.09	<0.001	0.032
TNF-α	0.07	<0.001	0.13	<0.001	0.015
CRP	0.20	<0.001	0.30	<0.001	0.000

IL-1β = interleukin-1β; IL-6 = interleukin-6: TNF-α = tumour necrosis factor-alpha; CRP = ultrasensitive C-reactive protein.

*P-value testing the difference in correlation coefficient between men and women.