Adipokines and ghrelin in gastric cancer cachexia

Table 4 Bivariate correlation analysis between different hormones and age, GPS and other parameters

		Resistin	Ghrelin	Leptin	Adiponectin	IGF-I
Age	R	0.115	0.267a	0.253	-0.092	-0.331a
	P	0.687	0.039a	0.051	0.486	0.010a
GPS	R	0.387a	0.327a	0.303a	0.241a	0.363a
	P	0.0017a	0.002a	0.003a	0.019a	0.004a
Insulin	R	0.348a	-0.126	-0.225	0.197	0.06
	P	0.016a	0.339	0.084	0.132	0.905
Glucose	R	0.418a	0.194	-0.324a	0.172	-0.358a
	P	0.0018a	0.138	0.012a	0.190	0.005a
HOMA-IR	R	0.518a	-0.100	-0.181	-0.094	0.073
	P	0.0001a	0.449	0.166	0.475	0.581
Prealbumin	R	-0.218	-0.223	-0.097	-0.341a	0.287a
	P	0.082	0.087	0.461	0.008a	0.026a

P: Pearson correlation coefficient; R: Kendall’s tau-b correlation coefficient. Significantly correlations and ^aP < 0.05.