Association between circulating CD34-positive cells and serum alkaline phosphatase in relation to body mass index for elderly Japanese men

Table 3 Simple correlation analysis of number of circulating CD34-positive cells and other variables

	Total subjects		BMI <23 kg/m²		BMI ≥23 kg/m²
	r	p	r	p	r	p
No. of participants	272		122		150
Age	−0.04	0.460	0.09	0.349	−0.15	0.072
Systolic blood pressure	−0.04	0.503	−0.02	0.856	−0.08	0.309
Diastolic blood pressure	−0.01	0.894	0.06	0.520	−0.09	0.250
Body mass index (BMI)	0.03	0.642	0.04	0.666	−0.10	0.202
Alcohol consumption	−0.03	0.623	−0.04	0.652	−0.04	0.646
Smoking status	−0.03	0.611	−0.002	0.983	−0.05	0.576
Serum HDL-cholesterol (HDL)	−0.03	0.633	0.04	0.689	−0.06	0.466
Serum triglycerides (TG)	0.10	0.073	0.08	0.353	0.11	0.171
Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)	0.10	0.118	−0.02	0.829	0.18	0.028
Serum aspartate aminotransferase (AST)	−0.05	0.490	−0.07	0.459	−0.04	0.631
Serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT)	0.05	0.419	−0.05	0.579	0.07	0.364
Serum γ-glutamyltranspeptidase (γ-GTP)	0.01	0.863	0.04	0.635	−0.02	0.837
Glomerular filtration rate (GFR)	−0.03	0.616	−0.04	0.696	−0.01	0.902
Serum calcium (Ca)	0.002	0.978	−0.01	0.932	−0.001	0.989
Serum phosphorus (P)	−0.04	0.563	−0.10	0.240	0.02	0.790
Serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP)	0.14	0.020	0.29	0.001	0.04	0.637

Alcohol consumption [never drinker, former drinker, current drinker (<23, 23–45, 46–68, ≥69 g/week)] and smoking status (never smoker, former smoker, current smoker)

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