Serum Levels of Asprosin, a Novel Adipokine, Are Significantly Lowered in Patients with Acromegaly

Table 4

Multiple regression analysis of variables independently related to serum asprosin in all subjects.

Asprosin (R^2adj = 0.626)	Multiple stepwise linear regression
	Unstandardized coefficients (B)	Standard error	Standardized coefficients (β)
Constant	0.702	0.418
Sex (male 1, female 0)	−0.560	0.063	−0.578	<0.001
Age	−0.237	0.081	−0.193	0.004
BMI	0.028	0.008	0.225	0.001
Group (acromegaly 1, control 0)	−0.246	0.059	−0.273	<0.001
TC	0.380	0.167	0.152	0.025

ln-converted before analysis. Bold values indicate statistical significance .