Table 5.

Correlations between the energy and selected nutrients intake and the concentration of ghrelin and adiponectin in two studied groups of different stage of the disease.

Energy and Nutrients Intake	Adiponectin			Ghrelin
	eGFR MDRD (ml/min/1.73 m2)			eGFR MDRD (ml/min/1.73 m2)
	<30 (N = 37)	>30 (N = 18)	Total (N = 55)	<30 (N = 37)	>30 (N = 18)	Total (N = 55)
Energy	0.141	−0.191	−0.105	0.137	0.078	0.088
Protein	0.202	−0.348	−0.020	0.073	0.467	0.204
Vegetable protein	0.001	−0.271	−0.067	0.115	0.610 **	0.225
Animal protein	0.238	−0.394	−0.013	0.021	0.322	0.122
Carbohydrates	0.109	−0.283	−0.043	0.184	0.565 *	0.304 *
Glucose	−0.017	−0.203	−0.084	0.052	0.521 *	0.196
Fructose	−0.046	−0.280	−0.123	0.021	0.329	0.112
Sucrose	0.245	−0.202	0.028	0.256	0.421	0.321 *
Fats	0.169	−0.365	−0.052	0.114	0.329	0.188
Fiber	−0.131	−0.434	−0.226	−0.015	0.498 *	0.138
Potassium	0.110	−0.285	−0.039	−0.015	0.536 *	0.164
Phosphorus	0.092	−0.398	−0.085	−0.021	0.355	0.090

* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed), ** correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).