Fig. 2

Correlation analysis between demographic and clinical characteristics of the study subjects. Correlation analysis between demographic and clinical characteristics of the enrolled females (A) and males (B), respectively. Bar plots present the distribution of each parameter, and the scatter plots show the distribution for each two parameters. The numbers in this figure indicate the correlation coefficients of each two parameters by Spearman method in R, and the red dots and asterisks indicate the degrees of statistical significances, ^•P < 0.1, ^*P < 0.05, ^**P < 0.01, ^***P < 0.001