Table 7.
Correlation of 14 microRNA (miRNA) expression with other clinical features of systemic lupus erythematosus.
| miRNA | Sex |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Male | N | Female | P value | |
| miR-23a | 8 | 49.45 (13.65, 146.85) | 38 | 12.22 (2.72, 43.87) | 0.046 |
| miRNA |
CRP (mg/l) |
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| N | <8 | N | >8 | P value | |
| miR-25 | 18 | 101.34 (9.50, 559.01) | 6 | 15.19 (0.23, 164.39) | 0.046 |
| miRNA |
ALT (U/l) |
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| N | 5–55 | N | >55 | P value | |
| miR-15b | 35 | 187.16 (34.70, 485.44) | 3 | 479.41 (411.09, 5,287.22) | 0.088 |
| miR-150 | 32 | 20.54 (8.41, 64.96) | 2 | 166.42 (94.92, 237.91) | 0.048 |
| miR-223 | 27 | 7.36 (1.73, 33.85) | 2 | 1,258.80 (59.06, 2,458.75) | 0.048 |
| miRNA |
Incipient |
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| N | Yes | N | No | P value | |
| miR-16 | 3 | 28.14 (17.71, 265.16) | 28 | 1.12 (0.28, 12.80) | 0.045 |