Adipokine gene expression in peripheral blood of adult and juvenile dermatomyositis patients and their relation to clinical parameters and disease activity measures

Table 4 Correlations between baseline peripheral blood gene expression levels of adipokines, baseline clinical parameters, and baseline disease activity measures*

	Age	Male sex	Prednisone use	DMARD use	Baseline global extra-skeletal muscle disease activity	Baseline muscle disease activity	Baseline global disease activity
Leptin	−0.74	0.01	0.23	0.10	0.04	−0.27	−0.06
	P < 0.001	P = 0.93	P = 0.14	P = 0.54	P = 0.81	P = 0.07	P = 0.68
Adiponectin	0.07	−0.07	−0.26	0.21	−0.15	−0.01	−0.06
	P = 0.62	P = 0.63	P = 0.10	P = 0.18	P = 0.31	P = 0.95	P = 0.70
Resistin	0.25	0.12	−0.34	−0.01	0.29	0.50	0.50
	P = 0.09	P = 0.44	P = 0.027	P = 0.95	P = 0.046	P < 0.001	P < 0.001
Visfatin	0.34	−0.35	−0.42	0.35	−0.20	−0.019	−0.11
	P = 0.020	P = 0.017	P = 0.006	P = 0.025	P = 0.17	P = 0.90	P = 0.46
IL-6	−0.64	0.03	0.34	−0.07	−0.03	−0.30	−0.14
	P < 0.001	P = 0.85	P = 0.029	P = 0.66	P = 0.87	P = 0.042	P = 0.34
TNF-α	0.12	0.003	0.28	0.22	−0.11	−0.25	−0.23
	P = 0.41	P = 0.98	P = 0.07	P = 0.16	P = 0.47	P = 0.09	P = 0.11

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