PBMCs to Stress-Associated miR-18a-5p and miR-22-3p Ratios as New Indicators of Metabolic Syndrome

Table 5

Spearman correlation among the miRNAs, inflammatory cells, stress hormones, and HOMA-IR.

	Cortisol	IL-6	TNF-α	HOMA-IR
Total subjects
miR-18a-5p	-0.304	-0.073	-0.165	0.052
miR-22-3p	-0.139	-0.290	-0.367	0.199
LC	0.482	0.215	0.170	-0.576
MC	0.137	0.148	-0.074	0.269
MetS group
miR-18a-5p	0.133	0.212	0.094	0.037
miR-22-3p	-0.124	-0.217	-0.195	0.141
LC	0.162	0.007	0.078	0.159
MC	-0.091	0.164	0.046	-0.004
Control group
miR-18a-5p	-0.086	-0.075	0.008	-0.474
miR-22-3p	0.186	-0.127	-0.276	-0.246
LC	0.518	0.168	0.315	0.323
MC	0.198	-0.100	-0.195	0.084

Legend: , . Abbreviations: IL-6: interleukin-6; TNF-α: tumor necrosis factor-α, HOMA-IR: homoeostasis model assessment of insulin; LC: lymphocyte count; MC: monocyte count.