Skip to main content
. 2013 Apr 5;8(4):e59498. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059498

Table 9. Saliva:Serum Ratio and Pearson Correlation for all samples.

Panel Analyte N Medianof Ratios Pearsoncorrelationr LCL UCL
Bone Insulin 1047 1.82 0.29 0.23 0.34
Leptin 1015 0.10 0.02 –0.04 0.08
OPG 1054 0.38 0.12 0.06 0.18
PTH 955 0.40 0.01 –0.05 0.08
MMP MMP-2 134 0.02 0.25 0.08 0.40
MMP-8 1035 29.62 0.06 7.0E−04 0.12
MMP-9 696 1.69 –0.03 –0.11 0.04
Obesity Adiponectin 1030 6.7E−04 0.31 0.25 0.36
CRP 781 1.5E−04 0.66 0.53 0.62
10-plex GM-CSF 113 0.97 0.27 0.08 0.43
IFN-γ 416 2.64 –0.01 –0.11 0.09
Il-10 639 1.35 0.06 –0.01 0.14
Il-1β* 559 62.57 –0.03 –0.23 0.17
Il-2 957 1.78 0.07 3.1E−03 0.13
Il-4 1025 2.57 –0.04 –0.10 0.03
Il-5 113 3.07 0.20 0.01 0.37
Il-6 979 4.22 0.05 –0.01 0.11
Il-8* 206 46.17 –0.33 –0.51 –0.10
TNF-α 997 5.29 8.0E−03 –0.05 0.07
4-plex MCP-1 919 1.89 0.03 –0.04 0.09
TNF-α 887 2.17 0.02 –0.05 0.08

All values are batch adjusted.

Median of Ratios – median of ratios computed for each participant.

*

Saliva values for these analytes are not adjusted due to insufficient QC data.

Pearson Correlation of natural log adjusted values, LCL, UCL lower and upper 95% confidence interval.