Table 4 Association of urine biomarkers with active LN status after adjusting for confounding factors.

From: Comprehensive aptamer-based screening identifies a spectrum of urinary biomarkers of lupus nephritis across ethnicities

 

Active LN vs inactive SLE

Protein

Race as co-factor

Race + age co-factors

Race  +  prednisone co-factors

 

p-value

q-value

p-value

q-value

p-value

q-value

ALCAM

*

*

*

*

*

ns

BFL-1

***

**

***

**

**

**

Calpastatin

***

***

***

***

***

**

FcgRIIBC

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

Hemopexin

**

**

**

**

**

**

MCP-1

**

*

**

*

**

*

Peroxiredoxin-6

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

PF-4

***

***

***

***

***

***

Properdin

***

***

***

***

***

***

sE-Selectin

**

**

**

**

**

**

TFPI

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

ns

VCAM-1

**

**

**

**

**

**

  1. ***p < 0.001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05, ns = p > 0.05. The same nomenclature is used for significance after multiple testing correction (q-values).