Table 2.
Correlation between different pairs of markers in patients and controls.
| Correlation | Patients | Controls | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Without nephritis N = 32 |
With nephritis N = 29 |
N = 51 | ||||
| p | rs | p | rs | p | rs | |
| sBAFF/sAPRIL | > 0.05 | < 0.01 | 0.67 | > 0.05 | ||
| sAPRIL/uAPRIL | > 0.05 | > 0.05 | < 0.01 | 0.42 | ||
| βAPRIL/εAPRIL | < 0.01 | 0.64 | < 0.01 | 0.61 | < 0.01 | 0.36 |
| βAPRIL/sAPRIL | > 0.05 | > 0.05 | > 0.05 | |||
| εAPRIL/sAPRIL | > 0.05 | > 0.05 | 0.02 | 0.33 | ||
| ΔBAFF/sBAFF | > 0.05 | > 0.05 | > 0.05 | |||
The correlation analysis was performed only with those individuals with available data in all the assays.
Only the rs values of those statistically significant correlations (p-values < 0.05) are displayed (shown in bold).