The gut hormone glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide is downregulated in response to myocardial injury

Table 2 Correlation of baseline patient characteristics with GIP serum levels

Parameter	ρ	N	p-value
Age—years	0.0557	731	0.1324
BMI—kg/m²	0.0761	724	0.0407
Sex (male)	− 0.0163	731	0.6607
Type 2 Diabetes	0.0828	731	0.0252
Hypertension	0.0320	728	0.3885
Smoker	− 0.0579	728	0.1187
Creatinine—mg/dL	0.0497	638	0.2096
eGFR—mL/min/1,73 m²	− 0.0611	638	0.1234
CK—U/L	− 0.0387	610	0.3399
Troponin—pg/mL	− 0.0097	351	0.8562
CRP—mg/L	0.0924	607	0.0228
Leukocytes—nL	− 0.0455	683	0.2352
Coronary artery disease	− 0.0247	731	0.5052

BMI body-mass-index, CK creatine kinase, CRP C-reactive protein, eGFR estimated glomerular filtration rate, ρ Spearman correlation coefficient, N number of observations, P-value of the test that Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient \(\rho \ne 0\)

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