Association of significantly elevated plasma levels of NGAL and IGFBP4 in patients with diabetic nephropathy

BMC Nephrology

Table 2 Spearman’s rank correlation between NGAL with Serum Creatinine, BUN, eGFR and IGFBPs

Markers	Non-diabetic group		T2D group		DN group
Markers	ρ	P value	ρ	P value	ρ	P value
Serum Creatinine	0.381	< 0.05	0.631	< 0.001	0.530	< 0.001
BUN	0.195	0.221	0.577	< 0.001	0.608	< 0.001
eGFR	- 0.430	< 0.001	- 0.707	< 0.001	- 0.552	< 0.001
IGFBP-1	0.010	0.950	0.167	0.256	0.195	0.120
IGFBP-3	0.005	0.976	- 0.113	0.450	0.122	0.331
IGFBP-4	0.019	0.906	0.252	0.085	0.620	< 0.001

IGFBP Insulin-like growth factor binding protein −1, 3, 4, BUN blood urea nitrogen, eGFR glomerular filtration rate, Spearman’s correlation coefficient ρ and p-value are presented. The Association is considered statistically significant when p-value < 0.05

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