Significance of kidney biopsy in autosomal dominant tubulointerstitial kidney disease-UMOD: is kidney biopsy truly nonspecific?

Table 5 Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient scores and significance value for each clinical and pathological parameter

		eGFR	Age	ci	ct	i	Glomerulosclerosis%	Detection rate%
eGFR	ρ	1.000	−0.296	−0.162	−0.352	−0.162	0.009	.709^*
eGFR	P		0.377	0.635	0.289	0.634	0.979	0.022
Age	ρ		1.000	−0.394	−0.074	−.571^*	− 0.188	0.032
Age	P			0.183	0.809	0.041	0.538	0.926
ci	ρ			1.000	0.339	0.477	0.504	0.051
ci	P				0.258	0.099	0.079	0.882
ct	ρ				1.000	0.386	0.102	−0.204
ct	P					0.193	0.739	0.548
i	ρ					1.000	0.218	−0.383
i	P						0.475	0.245
Glomerulosclerosis%	ρ						1.000	0.037
Glomerulosclerosis%	P							0.915
Detection rate%	ρ							1.000
Detection rate%	P

* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed), ρ correlation coefficient, P p-value
ci interstitial fibrosis, ct tubular atrophy, i inflammation
Glomerulosclerosis, % percentage of glomerulosclerosis, Detection rate%: detection rate of abnormal UMOD

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