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. 2022 Mar 16;13:841463. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2022.841463

Table 6.

Correlation matrix showing the association of mRNA expression of ER stress and pro-inflammatory genes with anthropometric and clinical variables.

Variables Δ Ct PERK Δ Ct ATF-4 Δ Ct CHOP Δ Ct IRE-1α Δ Ct XBP-1s Δ Ct GRP-78 Δ Ct IL-6 Δ Ct TNFα
r r r r r r r r
Height 0.11 0.14 0.4 0.24 0.15 0.4 0.32 0.2
Weight 0.08 0.32 0.5* 0.31 0.15 0.53* 0.27 0.32
BMI 0.02 0.31 0.31 0.19 0.05 0.38 0.07 0.28
Waist circumference 0.02 0.49* 0.64** 0.38 0.26 0.66*** 0.37 0.43
BP systolic 0.06 0.59** 0.42 0.64** 0.66** 0.36 0.42 0.3
BP diastolic 0.02 0.44 0.23 0.61* 0.58** 0.14 0.28 0.21
Fasting plasma glucose -0.29 0.40*** 0.41*** 0.43*** 0.46*** 0.32** 0.35*** 0.15
Postprandial plasma glucose -0.23 0.44*** 0.42*** 0.40*** 0.50*** 0.37*** 0.29* 0.17

r, correlation coefficient.

*p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001.