Table 2.

Correlations of WT1 mRNA and ACE mRNA with demographic and clinical parameters within total sample, DN group and DM group, separately

	mRNA		Age	BMI	FBS	HbA1c	Urea	S. Cr	eGFR	Alb/Cr
Total	WT1	r	0.222	− 0.167	0.423	0.571	0.193	0.200	0.042	0.509
		p	0.004	0.252	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.002	0.001	0.636	< 0.001
	ACE	r	− 0.101	0.180	− 0.402	− 0.592	− 0.135	− 0.177	0.058	− 0.465
		p	0.190	0.216	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.032	0.005	0.505	< 0.001
DN group	WT1	r	0.161	− 0.207	0.270	0.341	0.020	0.221	− 0.201	0.602
		p	0.239	0.565	0.006	< 0.001	0.845	0.025	0.326	< 0.001
	ACE	r	− 0.110	0.250	− 0.340	− 0.445	− 0.021	− 0.159	0.273	− 0.474
		p	0.424	0.486	0.001	< 0.001	0.836	0.110	0.177	< 0.001
DM group	WT1	r	0.040	− 0.172	0.280	0.518	0.001	0.007	0.138	0.018
		p	0.736	0.331	0.005	< 0.001	0.991	0.944	0.262	0.864
	ACE	r	0.050	0.154	− 0.372	− 0.685	0.064	− 0.025	0.040	− 0.234
		p	0.670	0.386	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.526	0.803	0.747	0.020

BMI body mass index, FBS fasting blood glucose, S. Cr serum creatinine, eGFR estimated glomerular filtration rate, Alb/Cr urine albumin/creatinine ratio

r = correlation coefficient of spearman, p = p-value