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. 2022 Dec 19;10(12):2571. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10122571

Table 4.

Correlation between Vitamin D and selected parameters according to COVID-19 and gender status.

Parameters Control Case
Female Male Female Male
R p-Value R p-Value R p-Value R p-Value
Age (years) 0.48 ** 0.00 −0.13 0.44 0.09 0.54 0.19 0.12
BMI (kg/m2) 0.15 0.37 −0.04 0.83 0.03 0.82 0.01 0.94
WHR 0.18 0.30 0.02 0.92 0.03 0.89 0.09 0.60
Systolic BP (mmHg) 0.14 0.41 0.04 0.82 0.03 0.84 0.20 0.10
Diastolic BP (mmHg) −0.06 0.74 0.24 0.15 −0.02 0.92 −0.09 0.46
Temperature (°C) 0.11 0.52 0.07 0.71 0.07 0.65 −0.03 0.81
Pulse rate 0.20 0.22 0.29 0.11 0.13 0.36 −0.07 0.57
Respiratory rate −0.01 0.96 −0.10 0.64 0.55 ** 0.00 0.19 0.12
Growth factors
   EGF (ng/mL) −0.19 0.25 −0.12 0.49 −0.30 0.19 0.39 * 0.05
   F-GF2 (pg/mL) −0.29 0.08 0.05 0.78 0.28 0.31 −0.05 0.81
   TFGα (ng/mL) −0.04 0.80 0.01 0.96 0.09 0.71 0.20 0.30
   VEGF (ng/mL) −0.10 0.58 0.62 ** 0.00 0.15 0.52 0.11 0.64
Colony Stimulating Factors
   G-CSF (pg/mL) −0.09 0.64 0.13 0.52 −0.01 0.96 −0.34 0.14
   GM-CSF (pg/mL) −0.17 0.32 −0.09 0.62 0.14 0.65 −0.13 0.55
Interleukins
   IL-1ra (pg/mL) −0.16 0.46 0.08 0.73 0.15 0.62 0.01 0.97
   IL-1α (pg/mL) −0.05 0.84 0.25 0.43 0.33 0.42 0.50 0.07
   IL-1β (pg/mL) −0.07 0.75 0.08 0.74 −0.33 0.23 −0.02 0.94
   IL-2 (pg/mL) −0.13 0.49 0.10 0.59 −0.50 0.06 0.08 0.75
   IL-4 (pg/mL) −0.19 0.26 −0.12 0.48 0.05 0.84 0.34 0.09
   IL-5 (pg/mL) −0.06 0.73 0.14 0.42 0.05 0.82 0.15 0.46
   IL-6 (pg/mL) 0.00 0.99 0.14 0.42 −0.23 0.27 0.14 0.49
   IL-7 (pg/mL) −0.16 0.33 −0.10 0.61 0.20 0.41 0.19 0.39
   IL-8 (pg/mL) 0.21 0.20 −0.19 0.27 0.06 0.80 0.13 0.52
   IL-10 (pg/mL) 0.07 0.68 0.00 1.00 0.19 0.39 0.22 0.26
   IL-13 (pg/mL) 0.17 0.29 0.07 0.71 −0.07 0.73 0.19 0.34
   IL-15 (pg/mL) 0.02 0.91 0.30 0.20 −0.23 0.37 0.39 * 0.04
   IL-17α (pg/mL) −0.05 0.75 −0.25 0.14 −0.36 0.06 0.10 0.63
   IL-23 (pg/mL) −0.08 0.63 0.01 0.94 0.03 0.87 0.19 0.33
Chemokines
   EOTAXIN (pg/mL) −0.20 0.22 −0.04 0.80 0.05 0.84 0.06 0.78
   Fractalkine (pg/mL) −0.18 0.31 0.14 0.48 0.01 0.96 −0.08 0.75
   GRO (ng/mL) 0.08 0.66 −0.60 ** 0.00 0.39 0.15 0.16 0.54
   IP-10 (ng/mL) 0.36 * 0.03 −0.05 0.79 −0.10 0.69 0.04 0.84
   MCP-3 (pg/mL) −0.32 0.09 −0.06 0.79 −0.05 0.89 0.23 0.46
   MDC (ng/mL) −0.16 0.35 −0.11 0.53 0.13 0.59 −0.27 0.18
   MCP-1 (ng/mL) 0.01 0.97 0.22 0.20 −0.19 0.42 −0.25 0.22
   MIP-1α (pg/mL) −0.21 0.24 0.12 0.52 −0.29 0.26 0.37 0.07
   MIP-1β (pg/mL) −0.10 0.54 0.13 0.46 −0.11 0.67 −0.14 0.51
Interferons
   IFNγ (pg/mL) 0.07 0.69 −0.18 0.31 −0.11 0.61 0.33 0.06
   IFNα2 (pg/mL) −0.23 0.20 0.08 0.67 −0.20 0.52 −0.24 0.33
Inflammatory Cytokines
   sCD40L (pg/mL) −0.01 0.95 0.06 0.72 −0.34 0.14 −0.17 0.40
   TNFα (pg/mL) −0.01 0.94 0.18 0.28 −0.16 0.45 0.16 0.40
Inflammatory Proteins
   CRP (ug/mL) 0.14 0.41 0.19 0.27 −0.51* 0.04 0.12 0.57

Note: Data are presented as Spearman correlations. * p < 0.01, ** p < 0.05