Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition

Table 2 Correlation coefficients of serum homocysteine with other clinical variables

From: Hypertension and cystatin C account for sex differences in serum homocysteine levels in acute coronary syndrome subjects with normal serum creatinine

Variables	Homocysteine (log₁₀)
	Male		Female
	Correlation coefficients	P value	Correlation coefficients	P value
Age	0.152	0.121	0.307	0.017
BMI	− 0.024	0.806	0.214	0.101
SBP	0.180	0.065	0.126	0.339
DBP	0.171	0.082	− 0.013	0.922
Smoking	− 0.034	0.728	− 0.192	0.143
Hypertension	0.569	< 0.001	0.456	< 0.001
Diabetes	0.068	0.493	0.018	0.889
Fasting glucose	− 0.090	0.361	− 0.002	0.989
TC	0.082	0.408	− 0.225	0.084
LDL-C	0.104	0.289	− 0.298	0.021
HDL-C	− 0.074	0.455	− 0.120	0.361
TG (log₁₀)	0.034	0.730	0.034	0.797
LPa (log₁₀)	− 0.182	0.063	− 0.178	0.173
Apo A1	− 0.125	0.203	− 0.066	0.615
Apo B	0.086	0.381	− 0.273	0.033
Hemoglobin	− 0.047	0.636	− 0.129	0.328
WBC	0.033	0.738	0.043	0.744
Platelets	0.008	0.938	0.023	0.860
Creatinine	0.367	< 0.001	0.341	0.008
Cystatin C (log₁₀)	0.333	0.001	0.429	0.001
BUN (log₁₀)	0.139	0.158	− 0.016	0.902
UA	0.192	0.050	0.295	0.022
Albumin	− 0.068	0.488	0.054	0.684

The abbreviations of the variables: BMI body mass index, SBP systolic blood pressure, DBP diastolic blood pressure, TC total cholesterol, LDL-C low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, HDL-C high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, TG triglyceride, LPa lipoprotein a, Apo A1 apolipoprotein A1, Apo B apolipoprotein B, WBC white blood cell, BUN blood urea nitrogen, UA uric acid

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