Nontraditional risk factors in chronic kidney disease: correlation between creatinine clearance, Framingham risk score, endothelial dysfunction, and inflammation

The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 5 Correlation between creatinine clearance, cardiovascular risk, laboratory and endothelial dysfunction measures

	Creatinine clearance r Pearson correlation	p value
FRS	− 0.532	0.0025
IMT	− 0.400	0.0285
Ca x p product	− 0.127	0.5070
Ca level	0.189	0.3198
P level	− 0.175	0.3412
iPTH	− 0.315	0.0900
Bun level	− 0.193	0.3146
Total cholesterol	− 0.263	0.1603
Triglycerides	− 0.131	0.4902
HDL level	0.296	0.1124
LDL level	0.079	0.6766
hs CRP level	− 0.432	0.0174
Absolute brachial FMD (mm)	0.404	0.0269

FRS Framingham risk score, IMT intimal medial thickness, Ca calcium, P phosphorus, iPTH intact parathyroid hormone, BUN blood urea nitrogen, HDL high-density lipoprotein, LDL low-density lipoprotein, Hs CRP high-sensitivity c-reactive protein, FMD flow-mediated dilatation mm millimeter