Table 3.
Spearman’s rank correlation & Spearman’s rank partial correlation coefficients relating NO strip results and laboratory nitrite and nitrate measurements in saliva and in serum.
| Saliva Nitrite |
Saliva Nitrate |
Serum Nitrite |
Serum Nitrate |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saliva Strips | Correlation Coefficient | |||
|
Neogenesis (Spearman
correlation) (Spearman partial correlation) |
0.53 0.59* |
0.30 0.29 |
0.33 0.34 |
0.24 0.25 |
|
Berkeley (Spearman
correlation) (Spearman partial correlation) |
0.71** 0.76** |
0.35 0.36 |
0.17 0.17 |
0.35 0.37 |
*
p-value ≤ 0.01
**
p-value ≤ 0.001
Remaining correlations are not significant (p-value > 0.05)