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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Diabetologia. 2016 Aug 17;59(11):2459–2466. doi: 10.1007/s00125-016-4073-6

Table 3.

Correlation between placental TLR4 mRNA and body composition or metabolic status in pregnant women

Variable Correlation with placental TLR4 mRNA (copies/ng RNA)
Spearman r p value
Maternal age 0.007 0.967
Gestational age 0.080 0.630
Pre-gravid BMI 0.570 0.000
BMI at delivery 0.667 0.000
Total GWG 0.178 0.278
HOMA-IR 0.309 0.062
Plasma glucose 0.007 0.969
Plasma insulin 0.350 0.034
Plasma leptin 0.729 0.000
Plasma CRP 0.532 0.004