Table 2.

Correlation of microRNA (miRNA) levels.

	miR-21	miR-146a	miR-155	miR-181a	miR-19
miR-21
rs	1	0.310	0.516	0.680	0.345
p value		0.013	<0.001	<0.001	0.005
miR-146a
rs	0.310	1	0.230	0.346	0.097
p value	0.013		0.680	0.005	0.448
miR-155
rs	0.516	0.230	1	0.589	0.161
p value	<0.001	0.68		<0.001	0.204
miR-181a
rs	0.680	0.346	0.589	1	0.104
p value	<0.001	0.005	<0.001		0.413
miR-19
rs	0.345	0.097	0.161	0.104	1
p value	0.005	0.448	0.204	0.413

r_s: Spearman’s correlation coefficient.

The bold and italic values are the statistically significant values.