Table II.

Correlation between soluble cluster of differentiation 36 concentrations and the other variables.

	All subjects, n=77		Healthy controls, n=36		Metabolic syndrome, n=41
Variables	r	P-value	r	P-value	r	P-value
Age	−0.04	0.72	0.13	0.47	−0.21	0.19
BMI	0.09	0.43	0.12	0.50	−0.12	0.46
Waist circumference	0.07	0.56	0.03	0.85	−0.03	0.83
FBG	0.17	0.14	0.12	0.48	0.11	0.51
HDL-cholesterol	−0.17	0.15	−0.14	0.43	−0.14	0.39
LDL-cholesterol	−0.08	0.52	0.21	0.23	−0.20	0.22
Total cholesterol	−0.11	0.32	0.08	0.66	−0.21	0.19
Triglycerides	−0.01	0.93	−0.32	0.06	−0.02	0.92
Sodium	0.03	0.79	0.08	0.64	0.09	0.58
Potassium	−0.09	0.44	−0.02	0.90	−0.24	0.13
Urea	0.03	0.77	0.06	0.72	−0.06	0.72
Creatinine	−0.06	0.60	−0.01	0.97	−0.15	0.34
WBCs	0.10	0.40	0.03	0.86	0.14	0.37
RBCs	0.04	0.73	−0.01	0.97	0.13	0.41
Platelets	0.08	0.47	0.01	0.93	0.12	0.45
Hgb	−0.04	0.70	−0.03	0.86	−0.002	0.99
HgA1c	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	0.03	0.84
DM duration	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	−0.02	0.89

r, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient; BMI, body mass index; FBG, fasting blood glucose; HDL, high-density lipoprotein; LDL, low-density lipoprotein; WBCs, white blood cells; RBCs, red blood cells; Hgb, hemoglobin; HbA1c, glycated hemoglobin; DM, diabetes mellitus.