Table 2. PCA loadings for the first four components (plasma parameters).

Attribute	PC1	PC2	PC3	PC4
Variance explained (cumulated value)	29% (29%)	21% (50%)	15% (65%)	13% (78%)
HSASH	−0.96	−0.16	0.10	−0.14
HSACys	0.86	0.10	−0.30	0.30
HSAGlc	0.61	0.24	0.44	−0.37
P-PRO	−0.17	0.79	−0.03	−0.22
P-PCO	−0.10	0.65	−0.35	0.39
P-CML	−0.46	0.61	−0.01	0.09
P-AOPP	−0.16	−0.37	−0.75	−0.11
P-AGE	0.19	0.18	−0.42	−0.76

Strong communalities in bold.