Microproteinuria in patients with inflammatory bowel disease: Is it associated with the disease activity or the treatment with 5-aminosalicylic acid?

Table 4 Correlation between microproteinuria in patients with ulcerative colitis and disease activity parameters (n=194 measurements)

		Ulcerative colitis activity parameters
		UCAI	UCEI	CRP	ESR	Platelets	SerumTNF-α
Urine m-ALB	rS	0.0283	0.0420	0.0232	0.0091	0.0826	0.1665
(μg/min)	P	0.6954	0.5612	0.7479	0.9001	0.2520	0.0203
Urine β2mGLB	rS	0.1957	0.1037	0.1059	0.0033	0.0540	0.0123
(μg/min)	P	0.0062	0.1501	0.1414	0.9634	0.4543	0.8648
Urine β-NAG	rS	0.2633	0.2335	0.1438	0.1224	0.2336	0.1057
(U/L)	P	0.0002	0.0010	0.0455	0.0891	0.0010	0.1426

r_S: Spearman’s correlation coefficient; r_P: Pearson’s correlation coefficient.