Research Article
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/m2) | 0.418 | 0.007 | KL-6 (U/mL) | 0.369 | 0.005 | WBC (×109) | 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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