Table 2. Simple correlation analysis of reticulocytes and other variables.

	Total		High hemoglobin (≥14.5 g/dL)		Low hemoglobin (<14.5 g/dL)
	r	p	r	p	r	p
No. of participants	249		122		127
Age	−0.07	0.276	−0.16	0.087	−0.04	0.691
Systolic blood pressure	−0.04	0.577	−0.14	0.137	−0.04	0.691
Diastolic blood pressure	−0.06	0.376	−0.15	0.093	−0.09	0.336
Body mass index (BMI)	0.09	0.166	0.05	0.553	0.06	0.470
Serum HDL-cholesterol (HDL)	−0.08	0.221	−0.15	0.092	0.01	0.910
Serum triglycerides (TG)	0.22	0.001	0.26	0.004	0.15	0.092
Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)	0.01	0.892	0.05	0.617	−0.09	0.300
Serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST)	0.13	0.038	0.17	0.057	0.05	0.593
Serum γ-glutamyltranspeptidase (γ-GTP)	0.28	<0.001	0.36	<0.001	0.16	0.070
Serum uric acid (UA)	0.12	0.061	0.12	0.205	0.10	0.271
Serum creatinine	0.02	0.809	0.01	0.917	0.05	0.570
White blood cells	0.32	<0.001	0.42	<0.001	0.15	0.085
Height	0.13	0.047	0.21	0.019	0.02	0.810

r: simple correlation coefficient. TG, γ-GTP and serum creatinine are calculated in logarithm values.