Peripheral mononuclear blood cells contribute to the obesity-associated inflammatory state independently of glycemic status: involvement of the novel proinflammatory adipokines chemerin, chitinase-3-like protein 1, lipocalin-2 and osteopontin

Table 4 Univariate analysis of the correlations between gene expression levels and circulating concentrations of the analyzed inflammatory markers

	Circulating LCN-2		Circulating YKL-40		Circulating OPN		Circulating chemerin
	r	P	r	P	r	P	r	P
mRNA LCN2	0.34	0.004	0.19	0.131	0.23	0.064	0.57	<0.001
mRNA CHI3L1	0.25	0.028	0.29	0.014	0.02	0.837	0.24	0.084
mRNA SPP1	0.28	0.017	0.17	0.168	0.10	0.438	0.37	0.006
mRNA RARRES2	0.24	0.048	0.08	0.510	0.20	0.103	0.42	<0.001

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