Table 4.

Association of urine biomarkers with active LN status after adjusting for confounding factors.

	Active LN vs inactive SLE
Protein	Race as co-factor		Race + age co-factors		Race  +  prednisone co-factors
	p-value	q-value	p-value	q-value	p-value	q-value
ALCAM	*	*	*	*	*	ns
BFL-1	***	**	***	**	**	**
Calpastatin	***	***	***	***	***	**
FcgRIIBC	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns
Hemopexin	**	**	**	**	**	**
MCP-1	**	*	**	*	**	*
Peroxiredoxin-6	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns
PF-4	***	***	***	***	***	***
Properdin	***	***	***	***	***	***
sE-Selectin	**	**	**	**	**	**
TFPI	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns	ns
VCAM-1	**	**	**	**	**	**

***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, ns = p > 0.05. The same nomenclature is used for significance after multiple testing correction (q-values).