Circulating Fractalkine Levels Predict the Development of the Metabolic Syndrome

Table 4

Correlations between baseline fractalkine and metabolic parameters at year 2 (𝑛=459).

	Unadjusted		Age-, sex-, education-, smoking-, and drinking-adjusted
	𝑟	𝑃 value	𝑟	𝑃 value
BMI	0.24	<0.001	0.23	<0.001
WC	0.28	<0.001	0.27	<0.001
WHR	0.24	<0.001	0.24	<0.001
Fat%	0.12	0.009	0.18	<0.001
SBP	0.11	0.054	0.04	0.470
DBP	0.11	0.053	0.07	0.187
FPG^a	0.20	<0.001	0.16	0.001
2 h PG^a	0.22	<0.001	0.20	<0.001
FINS^a	0.20	<0.001	0.17	0.001
2 h insulin^a	0.17	<0.001	0.21	<0.001
HOMA-IR^a	0.23	<0.001	0.21	<0.001
HbA1c	0.10	0.037	0.11	0.024
TC^a	0.14	0.011	0.10	0.058
LDL-c	0.11	0.033	0.08	0.130
HDL-c	−0.16	0.001	−0.18	<0.001
TG^a	0.24	<0.001	0.23	<0.001

Abbreviations as in Table 1.
Coefficients were performed using Pearson’s correlation analysis.
alg(x) transformation was performed because of a skewed distribution