Association between heavy metal levels and acute ischemic stroke

Table 2 The association between serum heavy metal levels and body mass index, hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia (all patients)

Variables	S-Pb (μg/L)		S-Hg (μg/L)		S-As (μg/L)		S-Cd (μg/L)
Variables	Correlation Coefficient^a	p-value	Correlation Coefficient^a	p-value	Correlation Coefficient^a	p-value	Correlation Coefficient^a	p-value
BMI	−0.066	0.582	0.180	0.139	0.072	0.550	−0.032	0.793
HbA1c	−0.118	0.348	−0.207	0.106	−0.121	0.338	−0.180	0.152
FBG	−0.096	0.430	−0.095	0.446	−0.021	0.860	−0.110	0.363
TG	−0.076	0.530	0.065	0.596	−0.065	0.588	0.043	0.721
CHOL	−0.041	0.733	−0.097	0.428	−0.148	0.216	0.019	0.874
SBP	−0.055	0.682	−0.050	0.717	−0.028	0.835	−0.007	0.959
DBP	0.009	0.944	0.211	0.125	0.048	0.721	0.088	0.516

^aThe correlation coefficient and p-value were estimated by Pearson’s correlation coefficient
BMI body mass index, SBP systolic blood pressure, DBP diastolic blood pressure, FBG fasting blood sugar, TG triglyceremia, CHOL cholesterol

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