New association of bone morphogenetic protein 4 concentrations with fat distribution in obesity and Exenatide intervention on it

Table 2 Correlations of serum BMP-4 levels with anthropometric variables, glucose-lipid metabolism and fat content

Parameters	Male		Female		Total
Parameters	r	P	r	P	r	P
BMI	0.032	0.848	0.375	0.045	0.201	0.100
Weight	0.118	0.476	0.365	0.052	0.201	0.100
NC	0.068	0.702	−0.145	0.490	−0.096	0.468
WC	0.136	0.436	0.233	0.263	0.181	0.166
lnHC	−0.001	0.995	0.429	0.029	0.225	0.083
lnWHR	0.206	0.236	−0.416	0.035	−0.097	0.462
SBP	-0.173	0.397	0.244	0.314	−0.006	0.970
DBP	-0.126	0.541	0.251	0.301	0.020	0.894
ALT	0.069	0.694	−0.072	0.712	−0.003	0.982
AST	0.203	0.256	0.080	0.678	0.152	0.237
FPG	-0.095	0.588	0.376	0.147	0.089	0.486
FINS	-0.132	0.422	−0.026	0.896	0.152	0.217
C-peptide	−0.032	0.847	−0.290	0.127	−0.103	0.404
lnHOMA-IR	-0.196	0.258	0.214	0.284	−0.077	0.550
HbA1C	−0.113	0.510	0.161	0.404	0.001	0.994
TC	-0.405	0.013	−0.332	0.079	−0.373	0.002
lnTG	−0.244	0.146	−0.193	0.308	−0.231	0.062
HDL-C	-0.166	0.326	−0.025	0.897	−0.022	0.858
LDL-C	-0.231	0.168	−0.158	0.412	−0.195	0.116
lnCRP	−0.131	0.431	0.019	0.924	−0.098	0.441
FFA	-0.080	0.638	0.186	0.335	0.069	0.582
UA	0.032	0.851	0.209	0.276	0.039	0.759
FT3	0.441	0.005	−0.151	0.434	0.124	0.314
FT4	0.045	0.786	−0.150	0.436	−0.072	0.558
TSH	0.100	0.547	0.214	0.266	0.186	0.129
%fat trunk/%fat legs	0.002	0.993	−0.358	0.144	−0.221	0.149
Total fatmass	−.034	0.870	0.445	0.064	0.161	0.298
Trunkfat%	−0.304	0.131	0.444	0.065	0.055	0.725
Est.VAT Area	0.128	0.552	0.625	0.007	0.377	0.015
Total Fat%	−0.236	0.247	0.493	0.038	0.139	0.370
Trunk fatmass	−0.100	0.635	0.395	0.105	0.170	0.275
Trunk/limb fat mass ratio	0.053	0.795	−0.370	0.131	−0.164	0.287

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