Association between Growth Differentiation Factor-15 and Risk of Cardiovascular Diseases in Patients with Adult Growth Hormone Deficiency

Figure 2

Correlations between GDF-15 and other indicators. GDF-15 was negatively correlated with (a) IGF-1 (r = −0.303, ). GDF-15 was positively correlated with (b) WHR (r = 0.26, ), (c) TG (r = 0.323, ), (d) TC (r = 0.196, ), (e) hs-CRP (r = 0.248, ), and (f) FRS (r = 0.428, ) (; ).

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