Table 1. Pearson’s correlation between mRNA levels of GDF11 and genes involved in lipid metabolism in our cohort of obese patients.

ALL	GDF11. vs. Col1A	GDF11. vs. FASN	GDF11. vs. PPARG	GDF11. vs. CPT1	GDF11. vs. SREBP1	GDF11. vs. PPARa
Pearson r	0.456	0.04332	0.527	0.3398	0.444	0.3189
P value	0.0067	0.8078	0.0014	0.0493	0.0085	0.066
NAFLD	GDF11. vs. Col1A	GDF11. vs. FASN	GDF11. vs. PPARG	GDF11. vs. CPT1	GDF11. vs. SREBP1	GDF11. vs. PPARa
Pearson r	-0.366	-0.2601	0.3157	-0.0023	0.3559	0.3276
P value	0.1125	0.2682	0.1751	0.9922	0.1235	0.1585
NASH	GDF11. vs. Col1A	GDF11. vs. FASN	GDF11. vs. PPARG	GDF11. vs. CPT1	GDF11. vs. SREBP1	GDF11. vs. PPARa
Pearson r	0.7581	0.3356	0.6657	0.7411	0.5368	0.4897
P value	0.0027	0.2623	0.013	0.0038	0.0585	0.0894

Analysis was carried out in all patients (n=33) or they were divided into two subgroups according to the presence NAFLD (n=20) or NASH (n=13).