Association between Osteocalcin, Metabolic Syndrome, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors: Role of Total and Undercarboxylated Osteocalcin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Table 2

Analysis of the overall correlation between the biochemical variables and the total and undercarboxylated osteocalcin.

Variable	Total osteocalcin		Undercarboxylated osteocalcin		Carboxylated osteocalcin
	𝑟	𝑃	𝑟	𝑃	𝑟	𝑃
Age	0.09	0.22	0.06	0.4	0.33	0.00
BMI	−0.16	0.02	−0.02	0.74	0.005	0.95
HbA1c	−0.20	0.01	−0.09	0.25	−0.12	0.12
HDL-cholesterol	0.03	0.71	0.15	0.03	−0.06	0.41
Apo A-1	−0.01	0.85	0.12	0.09	−0.06	0.38
Apo B/Apo A-1	−0.12	0.09	−0.16	0.02	0.12	0.09

HDL: high-density lipoprotein, Apo A-1: apolipoprotein A-1, Apo B: apolipoprotein B. 𝑃 values < 0.05 (bold) were considered statistically significant.