Table 3.

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients and p values.

		Age	BMI	CRP	FEV1	Leptin	Neuropeptide Y	KISS
KISS	R	‒ 0.3307	‒ 0.4251	‒ 0.4536	0.3004	‒0.5303	0.204
	p	0.0425	0.0078	0.0042	0.0668	0.012	0.2191
POMC	R	‒ 0.355	‒ 0.252	‒ 0.337	0.2098	‒ 0.5462	0.2021	0.1828
	p	0.0286	0.1262	0.038	0.2061	0.0008	0.223	0.2718

BMI body mass index, WBC white blood cells, NEU neutrophils, CRP C-reactive protein, FEV₁ forced expiratory volume in 1 s.

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients and p values were estimated using Statistica software.