The Egyptian Journal of Internal Medicine

Table 3 Univariate correlations between serum PCSK9 levels and other parameters

From: Does pathological type of primary nephrotic syndrome affect serum concentrations of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9?

Parameter	Spearman’s ρ	p-value
Age	− 0.129	0.371
Sex (male)	0.345	0.014
Hypertension	− 0.115	0.424
24-h urine protein	0.391	0.005
Serum creatinine	0.010	0.945
e-GFR	− 0.078	0.592
Serum albumin	− 0.188	0.191
TC	0.631	< 0.001
TG	0.390	0.005
LDL-C	0.668	< 0.001
VLDL-C	0.371	0.008
HDL-C	0.415	0.003

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