Pearson’s correlation coefficients, with and without an adjustment for haemoglobin, between fibrinogen or hs-CRP and the degree of erythrocyte adhesiveness/aggregation, expressed as the erythrocyte percentage
| Women | Men | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not adjusted | Hb adjusted | Not adjusted | Hb adjusted | ||
| Hb, haemoglobin; EP, erythrocyte percentage; hs-CRP, high sensitivity C reactive protein. | |||||
| EP v log hs-CRP | Correlation | −0.43 | −0.42 | −0.49 | −0.47 |
| Significance | <0.0005 | <0.0005 | <0.0005 | <0.0005 | |
| EP v log fibrinogen | Correlation | −0.51 | −0.53 | −0.52 | −0.50 |
| Significance | <0.0005 | <0.0005 | <0.0005 | <0.0005 | |