Table 3.

Relationships between cadmium exposure marker and renal dysfunction markers

		KIM-1	NAG	β2-MG
Men	(N = 260)
U-Cd	Corr.	0.295 ***	0.320 ***	0.182 **
	Partial corr.	0.289 ***	0.312 ***	0.156 *
B-Cd	Corr.	0.265 ***	0.200**	0.199 **
	Partial corr.	0.224 ***	0.150 *	0.132 *
Women	(N = 440)
U-Cd	Corr.	0.215 ***	0.251 ***	0.190 ***
	Partial corr.	0.205 ***	0.242 ***	0.178 ***
B-Cd	Corr.	0.205 ***	0.165 ***	0.228 ***
	Partial corr.	0.161 **	0.103 *	0.174 ***

U-Cd: urinary cadmium; B-Cd: whole blood cadmium; N: number of subjects;

Corr.: correlation coefficient (Pearson); Partial corr.: partial correlation coefficient after controlling.

by age for U-Cd, by age and smoking habit (yes1, no0).

*p<0.05; **p<0.01; ***p<0.001.