Impact of Serum Retinol-Binding Protein 4 Levels on Regulation of Remnant-Like Particles Triglyceride in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Table 2

Pearson correlation coefficients in the 92 patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

	RBP4	TG	RLP-TG
RBP4	—	0.1852*	0.2544^#
Triglyceride (TG)	0.1852*	—	0.6732^$
Remnant-like particle TG (RLP-TG)	0.2544^#	0.6732^$	—
Age	−0.2082*	−0.2810^#	−0.3337^†
BMI	0.1433	0.0290	0.0824
Total cholesterol (TC)	0.1729	0.4297^$	0.2894^#
HDL-C	0.0179	−0.3663^$	−0.3682^$
LDL-C	0.1047	0.1531	0.0292
Fasting plasma glucose	0.1214	0.1468	0.1794
HbA1c	0.1268	0.3054^#	0.3506^#
Visceral fat area (VFA)	0.1386	0.1295	0.1537
Subcutaneous fat area (SFA)	0.1559	0.0225	0.0460
Waist circumference (WC)	0.1919*	0.0427	0.0976
Adiponectin	0.0842	0.0857	0.1114
HOMA-R	0.0923	0.1670	0.3527^#

TG and RLP-TG were logarithm transformed. ^∗𝑃<0.05; ^#𝑃≤0.01; ^†𝑃≤0.001; ^$𝑃≤0.0001.