Evaluation of Serum Adipokines in Peripheral Arterial Occlusive Disease

Table 4

The results of correlation analysis.

Variables	Correlation
	Direction	Power	𝑃 value
Case group
TNF-α versus DM	Positive	Weak	0.0341
Resistin versus AHT	Negative	Weak	0.0080
Adiponectin versus AHT	Positive	Weak	0.0313
Leptin versus cholesterol	Positive	Weak	0.0437
Leptin versus triglycerides	Positive	Weak	0.0090
Control group
TNF-α versus obesity	Negative	Week	0.0468
TNF-α versus adiponectin	Negative	Weak	0.0222
TNF-α versus leptin	Positive	Weak	0.0255
Leptin versus triglycerides	Negative	Weak	0.0238
Adiponectin versus AHT	Negative	Weak	0.0359
Obesity versus HDL cholesterol	Positive	Week	0.0342

Week correlation was considered whenever the correlation coefficient was between [−0.5; 0.5].