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Published in final edited form as: Int J Cancer. 2020 Nov 2;148(8):1867–1878. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33351

TABLE 2.

Age-adjusted Spearman correlation coefficients^a

	ALT	AST	TBIL	GGT	ALP	TP	ALB	BMI	Waist/hip ratio	CRP	Age
ALT	1	0.69^b	0.12^b	0.58^b	0.16^b	0.13^b	0.15^b	0.33^b	0.43^b	0.14^b	0.02^b
AST		1	0.16^b	0.40^b	0.12^b	0.19^b	0.17^b	0.12^b	0.24^b	0.03^b	0.12^b
TBIL			1	0.09^b	−0.12^b	0.08^b	0.21^b	−0.06^b	0.13^b	−0.18^b	0.01^c
GGT				1	0.19^b	0.16^b	0.13^b	0.32^b	0.45^b	0.26^b	0.10^b
ALP					1	0.12^b	−0.01^b	0.16^b	0.07^b	0.27^b	0.18^b
TP						1	0.47^b	0.03^b	0.05^b	0.09^b	−0.07^b
ALB							1	−0.12^b	0.04^b	−0.19^b	−0.14^b
BMI								1	0.47^b	0.43^b	0.07^b
Waist/hip ratio									1	0.21^b	0.15^b
CRP										1	0.12^b
Age											1

Abbreviations: ALB, albumin; ALP, alkaline phosphatase; ALT, alanine transaminase; AST, aspartate transaminase; BMI, body mass index; CRP, C-reactive protein; GGT, gamma glutamyltransferase; TBIL, total bilirubin; TP, total protein.

All correlation coefficients are age adjusted except for those with age itself.

P < .001.

P < .01.