Analysis of Circulating Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Its Soluble Receptors in Patients with Different Forms of Chronic Urticaria

Table 3

Correlations between VEGF, sVEGF-R1, sVEGF-R2, and platelet number in chronic urticaria and healthy subjects.

Spearman test	Chronic urticaria				Healthy subjects; ( = 34)
	CSU/ASST(−); ( = 40)	CSU/ASST(+); ( = 26)	CSU/ASST(+)/Hashimoto; ( = 13)	DPU; ( = 12)
VEGF/sVEGF-R1
	0.653	0.905	0.764	0.905	0.930
	−0.073	0.024	−0.093	0.038	0.015
VEGF/sVEGF-R2
	0.929	0.440	0.877	0.528	0.533
	0.014	−0.296	−0.049	−0.202	−0.110
sVEGF-R1/sVEGF-R2
	0.093	0.681	0.778	0.896	0.136
	0.268	0.084	0.087	−0.042	0.260
VEGF/platelet
	0.782	0.735	0.820	0.430	0.892
	0.045	0.069	−0.071	−0.251	0.024