Table 3.

Correlations of miRNAs with metabolic profile.

	HOMA-IRa	Triglycerides [mg/dl]a	Cholesterol [mg/dl]	MRI PDFF [%]a	ALT [U/l]a	CK-18 [U/l]a
miRNA 192	0.16	0.19*	0.43**	0.38**	0.51**	0.40**
miRNA 122	0.30**	0.24*	0.33**	0.52**	0.65**	0.52**
miRNA 34a	0.16	0.20*	0.24*	0.37**	0.31**	0.33**
miRNA 193b	0.05	0.12	0.21*	0.31**	0.26**	0.26**b,c,d
miRNA 33b	0.11	−0.01	0.28**	0.24*	0.25**	0.17
miRNA 27b	−0.03	0.11	0.15	0.1	−0.01	0.11
miRNA 23a	−0.13	−0.02	−0.01	−0.04	−0.06	−0.03
miRNA 15a	−0.08	0.04	−0.02	−0.16	−0.09	−0.15
miRNA 1290	−0.10	0.06	0.10	0.22*	0.25**	0.18
miRNA 33a	−0.09	−0.20*b,c,d	0.03	−0.02	0.05	−0.01
miRNA 98	−0.13	−0.01	−0.01	−0.02	−0.01	−0.01
miRNA 144-3p	−0.06	−0.07	−0.1	−0.15	0.02	−0.04
miRNA 19	−0.07	−0.08	0.04	−0.11	0.01	−0.14
miRNA 93	−0.11	−0.16	−0.09	−0.14	0.02	−0.21*b,c,d
miRNA 197	−0.01	−0.15	−0.13	0.03	0.03	0.01
miRNA 144-5p	−0.08	−0.01	−0.06	0.03	−0.09	−0.03

^aSpearman rank correlation coefficients and Pearson correlation coefficients for skewed and normally distributed values, respectively. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01

p > 0.05 if adjusted for ^bage, ^csex, ^dpubertal stage.

Bold values indicate statistical significance.