Table 4. Correlation between alveolar lining fluid and serum concentrations of hormones and cytokines.

Protein	r =	Nominal p value	k	Benjamini-Hochberg criterion for rejection of Ho	Significant
ApoE	0.649	0.001	1	0,00263	Yes
C-reactive protein	0.542	0.009	2	0,00526	No
ApoA-II	-0.494	0.014	3	0,00789	No
PAi-1	-0.344	0.117	4	0,01053	No
Glucagon	0.309	0.162	5	0,01316	No
ApoB	0.314	0.178	6	0,01579	No
MCP-1	-0.223	0.294	7	0,01842	No
Resistin	0.217	0.31	8	0,02105	No
Adiponectin	0.212	0.32	9	0,02368	No
Visfatin	-0.209	0.327	10	0,02632	No
GIP	0.205	0.337	11	0,02895	No
ApoA-I	-0.204	0.338	12	0,03158	No
ApoC-II	0.11	0.626	13	0,03421	No
ApoC-III	0.10	0.658	14	0,03684	No
Adipsin	-0.063	0.768	15	0,03947	No
Leptin	-0.066	0.782	16	0,04211	No
Insulin	0.042	0.846	17	0,04474	No
GLP-1	0.033	0.881	18	0,04737	No
Ghrelin	0.008	0.971	19	0,05000	No

Data are Spearman correlation coefficients and their associated p-values from a hypothesis test evaluating whether the coefficients are different from zero. k: ordinal number of the comparison, from the most to the least significant according to the nominal p-value. The Benjamini-Hochberg FDR criterion for rejection of each p-value is shown, as well as whether or not the correlation is significant after FDR adjustment.