Table 2.

Correlations of levels and composition of the circulating microbiome with selected clinical parameters in hemodialysis patients

Characteristic	Age	Vintage	LPS	CRPa	TNF-α	IL-6a	MCP-1	Nrf2
16S rRNA	–0.18	0.014	0.11	0.27	0.30	–0.20	–0.33	–0.078
16S Shannon Index	0.093	0.081	–0.017	0.40b	0.016	0.094	0.12	0.22
Actinobacteria	0.26	0.13	–0.039	–0.13	0.20	0.095	–0.086	–0.41b
Proteobacteria	–0.30	0.17	0.26	0.28	0.0011	0.13	0.10	0.42b

Data are presented as Spearman rank correlation (rho).

CRP, C-reactive protein; IL-6, interleukin-6; LPS, lipopolysaccharide; MCP-1, monocyte chemoattractant protein−1; Nrf2, nuclear factor erythroid 2−related factor 2; rRNA, ribosomal RNA; TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor−α.

^aValues were log transformed.

^bP <0.05.