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Table 5.

Correlations between urinary exosome-derived miRNAs and renal function indices.

Groups	Correction factors	Rank	BUN		sCRE		uCRE
All (NR, KD)	Raw, uRNA, uCRE	1	let-7b	−0.589^**	let-7b	−0.596^**	let-7b	0.230^*
		2	let-7b/uRNA	−0.470^**	miR-22	−0.482^**	NA
		3	miR-22	−0.460^**	let-7b/uRNA	−0.460^**	NA
		4	miR-22/uRNA	−0.425^**	miR-22/uRNA	−0.438^**	NA
		5	miR-26a	−0.344^**	miR-21a/uCRE	0.352^**	NA
		6	miR-21a/uCRE	0.341^**	miR-26a	−0.295^**	NA
		7	miR-191	−0.291^**	miR-191	−0.294^**	NA
		8	miR-10b	−0.286^**	miR-191/uRNA	−0.246^*	NA
KD	Raw, uRNA, uCRE	1	NA		miR-181a	0.351^*	NA
All(NR, KD)	Ratio	1	miR-21a/let-7b	0.754^**	miR-21a/let-7b	0.751^**	let-7b/miR-21a	0.421^**
		2	miR-21a/miR-22	0.557^**	miR-21a/miR-22	0.614^**	let-7b/miR-10a	0.332^**
		3	let-7f/let-7b	0.522^**	miR-10a/let-7b	0.547^**	let-7b/miR-486	0.259^*
		4	miR-486/miR-22	0.475^**	let-7f/let-7b	0.524^**	let-7b/miR-22	0.252^*
		5	miR21a/miR-26a	0.471^**	miR-21a/miR-191	0.473^**	miR-27b/miR-10a	0.231^*
KD	Ratio	1	miR-21a/let-7b	0.440^*	miR-21a/let7b	0.601^**	miR-26a/miR-191	0.318^*
		2	miR-181a/let-7b	0.420^*	miR-181a/miR-10b	0.571^**	NA
		3	miR-181a/miR-10b	0.333^*	miR-181a/let-7b	0.568^**	NA
		4	NA		miR-181a/let-7f	0.505^**	NA
		5	NA		miR-181a/miR-10a	0.445^**	NA

NR, normal renal function group; KD, kidney disease group; sCRE, serum creatinine; BUN, blood urea nitrogen; uCRE, urinary creatinine; NA, not available.

^{* , **}

Spearman's correlation test (P < 0.05, P < 0.01) was used to analyze the correlation between two parameters