Relation of Wnt Signaling Pathway Inhibitors (Sclerostin and Dickkopf-1) to Left Ventricular Mass Index in Maintenance Hemodialysis Patients

Table 7

Correlation between AVC, MVC, iPTH, and some clinical and chemical variables.

	AVC		MVC		iPTH
	r		r		r
Age	0.55	<0.0001	0.38	0.003	−0.05	0.72
HD duration	0.23	0.1	0.01	0.95	0.24	0.08
Ferritin	−0.09	0.48	−0.05	0.69	−0.006	0.96
Hemoglobin	−0.22	0.09	−0.18	0.16	0.22	0.09
Iron	−0.1	0.47	−0.08	0.5	0.12	0.35
TIBC	0.04	0.78	−0.13	0.33	−0.01	0.93
TSAT	−0.09	0.5	−0.05	0.72	0.08	0.55
Albumin	−0.15	0.24	−0.17	0.2	0.18	0.16
Syst. BP	0.12	0.35	0.04	0.75	0.06	0.66
Diast. BP	0.1	0.47	0.08	0.54	−0.01	0.93
Cholesterol	−0.17	0.19	−0.27	0.04	0.03	0.82
HDL	0.06	0.65	0.09	0.5	0.04	0.78
LDL	−0.17	0.19	−0.28	0.03	0.02	0.86
Kt/v	−0.01	0.91	−0.12	0.36	0.03	0.82
Calcium	−0.02	0.89	0.09	0.52	0.03	0.8
Phosphorus	−0.09	0.48	−0.04	0.75	0.41	0.001
Sclerostin	−0.47	<0.0001	−0.27	0.04	0.15	0.24
Dkk-1	−0.15	0.25	−0.16	0.21	0.03	0.8
iPTH	−0.18	0.18	−0.03	0.85

Spearman’s correlation used. Significant when .