Microproteinuria in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: Is it associated with the disease activity or the treatment with 5-aminosalicylic acid?

Table 5 Correlation between microproteinuria in patients with Crohn’s disease and disease activity parameters (n=83 measurements)

		Crohn's disease activity parameters
		CDAI	CRP	ESR	Platelets	SerumTNF-α
Urine m-ALB	rS	0.1186	0.0326	0.0352	0.1483	0.1537
(μg/min)	P	0.2856	0.7686	0.7522	0.1810	0.1654
Urine β2mGLB	rS	0.0813	0.0187	0.0624	0.1727	0.2100
(μg/min)	P	0.4648	0.8669	0.5751	0.1184	0.0568
Urine β-NAG	rS	0.1106	0.0319	0.0947	0.0527	0.2676
(U/L)	P	0.3196	0.7744	0.3347	0.6359	0.0145

r_S: Spearman’s correlation coefficient; r_P: Pearson’s correlation coefficient.