Table 2.

Correlations of galectin–3 with other continuous variables

Characteristic	Galectin–3
	ρ	P–value
Age	0.008	0.86
Time on dialysis	0.036	0.42
Systolic blood pressure	0.088	<  0.05
Diastolic blood pressure	0.048	0.28
Hemoglobin	−0.051	0.25
Albumin	0.038	0.39
Single–pool Kt/V	0.022	0.62
Alkaline phosphatase	< 0.001	0.99
Potassium	−0.022	0.62
Sodium	0.056	0.21
Calcium	−0.013	0.77
Phosphorus	0.034	0.45