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. 2022 Feb 11;23:64. doi: 10.1186/s12882-022-02692-z

Table 2.

Spearman’s rank correlation between NGAL with Serum Creatinine, BUN, eGFR and IGFBPs

Markers Non-diabetic group T2D group DN group
ρ P value ρ P value ρ P value
Serum Creatinine 0.381 <  0.05 0.631 <  0.001 0.530 <  0.001
BUN 0.195 0.221 0.577 <  0.001 0.608 <  0.001
eGFR - 0.430 <  0.001 - 0.707 <  0.001 - 0.552 <  0.001
IGFBP-1 0.010 0.950 0.167 0.256 0.195 0.120
IGFBP-3 0.005 0.976 - 0.113 0.450 0.122 0.331
IGFBP-4 0.019 0.906 0.252 0.085 0.620 < 0.001

IGFBP Insulin-like growth factor binding protein −1, 3, 4, BUN blood urea nitrogen, eGFR glomerular filtration rate, Spearman’s correlation coefficient ρ and p-value are presented. The Association is considered statistically significant when p-value < 0.05