Table 5 Pearson or Spearman correlation between ANRIL methylation and clinical characteristics of the study population.

From: DNA methylation of antisense noncoding RNA in the INK locus (ANRIL) is associated with coronary artery disease in a Chinese population

Characteristics

2CpG islands7to8

2CpG islands 40

Relationship coefficient

P value

Relationship coefficient

P value

Age (years)

0.058

0.418

−0.147

0.037

SBP

−0.042

0.561

−0.016

0.821

DBP

−0.011

0.882

0.040

0.576

TCH

0.204

0.004

0.096

0.176

TG

−0.010

0.888

−0.012

0.870

HDL-C

0.165

0.020

0.056

0.434

LDL-C

0.265

0.000

0.093

0.191

FBG

0.053

0.453

−0.178

0.012

CR

−0.112

0.114

0.012

0.867

  1. Data are summarized as either mean ± standard deviation or 50th (25th/75th) percentiles for continuous variables and N1/N2 for binary variables. CHD, coronary heart disease; TC, total cholesterol; HDL-C, fasting high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; LDL-C, fasting low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; TG, triglyceride; FBG, fasting blood glucose; CR, creatinine.