Circulating Prokineticin 2 Levels Are Increased in Children with Obesity and Correlated with Insulin Resistance

Table 3

Correlation analysis between prokineticin 2 and biochemical data in all participants.

Variables	PK2		PK2 (gender-adjusted)		Multivariate
	r		r		b
Age	0.059	0.460	0.035	0.662	—	—
BMI	0.357	<0.001	0.357	<0.001	0.366	<0.001
BMI z-score	0.277	0.001	0.307	<0.001	—	—
Fins	0.389	<0.001	0.311	<0.001	—	—
FBG	0.253	0.001	0.214	0.007	—	—
HOMA-IR	0.382	<0.001	0.298	<0.001	—	—
TG	0.008	0.923	0.001	0.992	—	—
TC	0.171	0.030	0.165	0.037	—	—
HDL-C	0.039	0.620	0.009	0.915	—	—
LDL-C	0.233	0.003	0.209	0.008	—	—
ALT	0.349	<0.001	0.151	0.056	—	—
AST	0.020	0.804	0.069	0.383	—	—
GGT	0.401	<0.001	0.108	0.176	—	—
IL-6	−0.100	0.208	−0.040	0.613	—	—
TNF-α	−0.138	0.080	−0.137	0.084	—	—
WBC	0.090	0.258	0.115	0.148	—	—
Neutrophils	0.068	0.388	0.114	0.149	—	—

In the multiple linear stepwise regression analysis, the values included for analysis were BMI, Fins, FBG, LDL-C, ALT, GGT.