Significance of Heparin-Binding Protein and D-dimers in the Early Diagnosis of Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis

Table 2

Correlation coefficient parameters (first column) and PMN for the simple and multiple linear regression models. Statistically significant coefficient (with an alpha value of 0.05) in italics; r: Pearson’s correlation coefficient; r²: Pearson’s correlation coefficient squared; N/a: not applicable.

Parameter	Simple linear regression Pearson’s correlation			Multiple linear regression
	Age (years)	−0.0195	0.0004		0.8796	>0.05
Sex/gender	N/a	N/a	N/a	>0.05
WBC (G/L)	0.2867	0.0822	0.0227	>0.05
CRP (mg/L)	0.1816	0.0330	0.1544	>0.05
PCT (ng/mL)	−0.0992	0.0098	0.4393	>0.05
HBP (ng/mL)	0.2915	0.0850	0.0205	>0.05
PLT (G/L)	0.0609	0.0037	0.6354	>0.05
D-dimers (ng/mL)	0.4783	0.2287	0.00007	; ;