Table 3.

Correlation of circulating cathepsin S with clinical and biological parameters.

Variables	cathepsin S
	r	p value
Age	−0.016	0.771
Sex	−0.026	0.635
Smoking	0.013	0.818
Alcohol	−0.036	0.507
Hypertension	0.107	0.051
Duration of diabetes	−0.001	0.981
BMI	0.143	0.009**
WC	0.021	0.696
WHR	0.126	0.021*
SBP	0.132	0.016*
DBP	0.216	0.000***
FBG	0.078	0.154
PBG	0.100	0.069
HbA1c	0.022	0.692
Fasting insulin	0.067	0.221
2 h insulin	0.129	0.019*
Fasting C peptide	0.039	0.469
2 h C peptide	0.102	0.063
HOMA-IR	0.106	0.051
BUN	0.118	0.030*
Scr	0.023	0.668
Serum uric acid	−0.013	0.814
eGFR	−0.031	0.575
TC	−0.021	0.695
TG	0.108	0.046*
LDL-C	−0.048	0.381
HDL-C	−0.018	0.737

P < 0.05 (*), P < 0.01 (**), P < 0.001 (***).