Free Radicals and Antioxidant Status in Protein Energy Malnutrition

Table 4

Correlation between antioxidants and oxidants	Coefficient of correlation and its statistical significance between normal and malnourished
MDA and ceruloplasmin	𝑟=−0.904,𝑃<0.001
MDA and Glutathione	𝑟=−0.901,𝑃<0.001
MDA and CU, ZN-SOD	𝑟=−0.869,𝑃<0.01
MDA and ascorbic acid	𝑟=−0.821,𝑃< 0.001
Protein carbonyl and glutathione	𝑟=−0.808,𝑃<0.01
Protein carbonyl and CU, ZN-SOD	𝑟=−0.789,𝑃<0.01
Protein carbonyl and ascorbic acid	𝑟=−0.727,𝑃<0.01
Protein carbonyl and ceruloplasmin	𝑟=−0.851,𝑃<0.01