Effects of molecular structural variants on serum Krebs von den Lungen-6 levels in sarcoidosis

Table 5 Univariate analyses between Log serum KL-6 and potentially relevant variables

		Correlation with Log serum KL-6
		R*	P-value
Age		0.065	0.466
		Mean ± SD	P-value**
Gender	Male	2.57 ± 0.237
			0.726
	Female	2.56 ± 0.264
Smoking status	Non/Ex smoker	2.54 ± 0.205
			0.072
	Current smoker	2.62 ± 0.302
Lung parenchymal involvement	Without	2.53 ± 0.198
			0.020
	With	2.63 ± 0.291
Band pattern in serum	Low molecular size	2.54 ± 0.223
			<0.001
	Higher molecular size	2.78 ± 0.284

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