Inflammatory markers and frailty in home-dwelling elderly, a cross-sectional study

BMC Geriatrics

Table 2 Spearman‘s correlation between FI score and inflammatory markers

Inflammatory marker	Total (N = 403)		Women (N = 210)		Men (N = 193)
	R	*P-value*	R	*P-value*	R	*P-value*
CRP** (N = 400), mg/L	0.20	< 0.001	0.18	0.01	0.22	0.002
IL-6* (N = 394), pg/ml	0.28	< 0.001	0.27	< 0.001	0.33	< 0.001
IGF-1, ng/ml	-0.1	0.04	-0.1	0.16	-0.08	0.26
Cystatin C*, ng/ml	0.28	< 0.001	0.28	< 0.001	0.33	< 0.001
Cathepsin S, pg/ml	0.17	< 0.001	0.21	0.003	0.16	0.03
Gp-acetyls, mmol/L	0.19	< 0.001	0.17	0.014	0.21	0.004

Variables with “*” are log-transformed before the correlation. Spearman’s correlation is used in all of the correlation analyses. ** CRP < 50: CRP levels ≥ 50 were excluded from the analysis and log-transformed. IL-6; interleukin-6, IGF-1; insulin-like growth factor-1, CRP; C-reactive protein, Gp-acetyls; Glycoprotein acetyls

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