Serum Levels of Kisspeptin Are Elevated in Patients with Pancreatic Cancer

Table 2

Levels of various laboratory parameters.

	PDAC patients; Median (range)	Healthy controls; Median (range)
Kisspeptin pre-OP (pg/ml)	159.75 (11.3-432.4)	79.81 (0.91-232.3)
Kisspeptin post-OP (pg/ml)	124.55 (11.29-272.9)
CEA (μg/l)	2.9 (0.22-76.30)	1.3 (0.3-6.3)
CA 19-9 (U/ml)	115.8 (0.6-5637.0)	5.7 (0.0-44.1)
Sodium (mmol/l)	139.0 (121.0-149.0)
Potassium (mmol/l)	4.3 (2.8-5.8)
Leucocyte count (cells/nl)	7.5 (2.7-22.1)
Platelets (cells/nl)	267.0 (117.0-799.0)
CRP (mg/l)	8.25 (0.0-237.0)
AST (U/l)	32.0 (13.0-405.0)	30.0 (20.0-78.0)
ALT (U/l)	41.0 (7.0-651.0)	24.0 (5.0-82.0)
GGT (U/l)	131.0 (10.0-2138.0)	18.8 (8.0-98.0)
ALP (U/l)	133.0 (42.0-1574.0)	68.0 (40.0-100.0)
LDH	179.5 (113.0-317.0)	160.0 (60.0-204.0)
Bilirubin (mg/dl)	0.69 (0.2-26.2)	0.44 (0.10-1.46)
Creatinine (mg/dl)	0.855 (0.4-3.3)

CEA: carcinoembryonic antigen, CA 19-9: carbohydrate-antigen 19-9, CRP: C-reactive protein, AST: aspartate transaminase, ALT: alanine transaminase, GGT: γ-glutamyl transpeptidase, ALP: alkaline phosphatase, LDH: lactate dehydrogenase.