Plasma Leptin Is Elevated in Acute Exacerbation of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

Table 2

Bivariate correlation analysis between plasma leptin levels and clinical variables among 62 patients with IPF.

Cinical variables	Spearman correlation coefficients	value
BMI (kg/m^2)	0.418	0.007
KL-6 (U/mL)	0.369	0.005
WBC (×10^9)	0.154	0.232
LDH (U/L)	0.367	0.003
ESR (mm/h)	0.169	0.201
CRP (mg/L)	0.271	0.033
PaO2/FiO2	−0.275	0.032

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