Table 3

Spearman correlation coefficients for the analyzed sphingoid bases, clinical chemistry, and anthropometric variables (p<0.05 in bold)

	C₁₆SO	C₁₆SA	C₁₇SO	C₁₈PhytoSO	C₁₈SAdiene	C₁₈SO	C₁₈SA	C₁₉SO	C₂₀SO	C₂₀SA	1-DeoxySO	1-DeoxySA
Age	0.14	−0.02	0.25	0.11	0.11	0.11	−0.05	0.27	−0.03	−0.04	−0.13	−0.17
BMI	0.06	0.16	−0.07	−0.03	0.03	−0.03	0.19	−0.08	0.09	0.18	0.29	0.26
Waist circumference	−0.10	0.04	−0.24	−0.15	−0.11	−0.13	0.10	−0.20	0.04	0.11	0.33	0.26
WHR	−0.24	−0.08	−0.38	−0.19	−0.26	−0.19	−0.02	−0.27	0.01	0.02	0.27	0.16
Cholesterol	0.43	0.39	0.40	0.43	0.53	0.57	0.40	0.19	0.22	0.20	0.19	0.26
LDL-C	0.34	0.34	0.36	0.37	0.43	0.50	0.31	0.21	0.17	0.14	0.05	0.13
HDL-C	0.41	0.07	0.41	0.32	0.45	0.34	0.08	0.19	−0.09	−0.07	−0.07	−0.01
TG	−0.09	0.13	−0.17	−0.02	−0.07	−0.09	0.13	−0.14	0.14	0.20	0.42	0.39
Glucose	−0.05	0.07	−0.16	−0.06	−0.19	−0.12	0.14	−0.10	0.14	0.24	0.32	0.24
HbA1c	0.01	−0.01	−0.01	0.09	−0.04	0.02	0.10	−0.04	0.04	0.13	0.20	0.22
Insulin	0.03	0.18	−0.07	−0.04	−0.07	−0.06	0.17	0.00	0.21	0.19	0.23	0.19
HOMA	0.02	0.19	−0.10	−0.01	−0.11	−0.07	0.18	−0.03	0.21	0.24	0.29	0.25
Systolic BP	0.06	0.09	0.05	0.08	0.05	0.01	0.09	0.02	0.07	0.15	0.04	0.09
Diastolic BP	0.03	0.10	−0.03	0.02	−0.01	−0.04	0.07	−0.01	0.05	0.09	0.11	0.14
CRP	−0.13	−0.03	−0.07	−0.02	−0.02	0.13	0.15	0.01	0.14	0.03	0.05	0.10
Potassium	−0.06	−0.06	−0.10	−0.01	0.01	0.02	0.01	−0.09	−0.01	−0.04	0.16	0.15
Serum creatinine	−0.11	−0.17	−0.11	−0.08	−0.16	−0.10	−0.20	−0.02	−0.04	−0.13	0.08	0.05
GFR (Mayo)	−0.12	0.08	−0.23	−0.07	−0.11	−0.07	0.11	−0.22	0.06	0.11	0.06	0.06

BMI, body mass index; CRP, C reaction protein; GFR (Mayo) Glomerular filtration rate (Mayo equation); Hb, hemoglobin; HbA1c, glycated Hb; HDL-C, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol; HOMA, Homeostatic model assessment; LDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; SA, sphinganine; SO, sphingosine; TG, triglycerides; WHR, waiste-to-hip ratio.