Adipose tissue-derived cytokines and their correlations with clinical characteristics in Vietnamese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Table 2 Correlation between pair of studied adipokines

Adipokines	Leptin (ng/ml)		Resistin (ng/ml)		Visfatin (ng/ml)		MCP-1 (pg/ml)		SFRP5 (ng/ml)		RBP4 (ng/ml)
Adipokines	ρ (rho)	P value	ρ (rho)	P value	ρ (rho)	P value	ρ (rho)	P value	ρ (rho)	P value	ρ (rho)	P value
Leptin (ng/ml)			0.18	0.009	− 0.004	0.96	0.09	0.15	0.17	0.037	− 0.03	0.63
Resistin (ng/ml)	0.18	0.009			− 0.02	0.77	0.22	0.001	0.17	0.038	− 0.22	0.001
Visfatin (ng/ml)	− 0.004	0.96	− 0.02	0.77			0.29	< 0.0001	0.24	0.015	− 0.12	0.18
MCP-1 (pg/ml)	0.09	0.15	0.22	0.001	0.29	< 0.0001			0.18	0.025	− 0.22	0.001
SFRP5 (ng/ml)	0.17	0.037	0.17	0.038	0.24	0.015	0.18	0.025			0.05	0.56
RBP4 (ng/ml)	− 0.03	0.63	− 0.22	0.001	− 0.12	0.18	− 0.22	0.001	0.05	0.56

The correlations between pair of studied adipokines were calculated by using the Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. Spearman’s rho (ρ) and P values are presented