Effects of Vitamin D Supplementation on Renin and Aldosterone Concentrations in Patients with Advanced Heart Failure: The EVITA Trial

Table 3

Interrelationships between study variables according to Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient.

	Phosphate	25OHD	1,25(OH)2D	FGF-23	Renin	Aldosterone
Phosphate	—	−0.031	−0.131	0.242	0.071	0.237
25OHD	−0.031	—	0.205	−0.048	0.157	0.048
1,25(OH)2D	−0.131	0.205	—	−0.262	−0.056	−0.067
FGF-23	0.242	−0.048	−0.262	—	0.171	0.126
Renin	0.071	0.157	−0.056	0.171	—	0.321
Aldosterone	0.237	0.048	−0.067	0.126	0.321	—

, , . 25OHD: 25-hydroxyvitamin D; 1,25(OH)₂D: 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D; FGF: fibroblast growth factor.