Changes with aging in gastric biomarkers levels and in biochemical factors associated with Helicobacter pylori infection in asymptomatic Chinese population

Table 4 Correlation matrix among serum gastric biomarker levels, age and biochemical tests

	Age	PGI	PGII	PGI/II	G-17	Hp-IgG	TG	TC	HDL-C	LDL-C	FBG	UA	Cr	Cys-C	BMI
Age	1	0.161b	0.215b	-0.155b	0.140b	0.104a	-0.009	0.108a	0.010	0.136b	0.145b	0.148b	0.265b	0.548b	-0.016
		0.001	0.000	0.002	0.005	0.038	0.854	0.033	0.844	0.007	0.004	0.003	0.000	0.000	0.781
PGI		1.000	0.682b	0.047	-0.140b	0.260b	-0.014	-0.066	-0.051	-0.023	0.056	0.188b	0.301b	0.355b	0.011
			0.000	0.357	0.005	0.000	0.788	0.188	0.308	0.654	0.266	0.000	0.000	0.000	0.843
PGII			1.000	-0.588b	0.149b	0.592b	-0.029	-0.062	-0.075	-0.019	-0.005	0.077	0.209b	0.278b	0.006
				0.000	0.003	0.000	0.571	0.216	0.135	0.705	0.915	0.124	0.000	0.000	0.913
PGI/II				1.000	-0.384b	-0.587b	0.035	0.032	0.040	0.027	0.074	0.080	-0.019	-0.060	0.003
					0.000	0.000	0.488	0.532	0.427	0.590	0.140	0.112	0.712	0.234	0.961
G-17					1.000	0.105a	0.055	-0.020	-0.068	-0.016	0.119a	-0.062	0.129a	0.105a	-0.023
						0.038	0.279	0.695	0.177	0.749	0.018	0.219	0.011	0.037	0.690
Hp- IgG						1.000	0.000	-0.025	-0.062	-0.004	0.057	0.009	0.058	0.095	0.006
							0.985	0.618	0.220	0.938	0.257	0.865	0.250	0.059	0.919
TG							1.000	0.278b	-0.327b	0.145b	0.166b	0.156b	0.059	0.068	0.048
								0.000	0.000	0.004	0.001	0.002	0.243	0.176	0.402
TC								1.000	0.295b	0.896b	0.123a	0.023	-0.032	-0.039	0.111
									0.000	0.000	0.015	0.647	0.530	0.442	0.053
HDL-C									1.000	0.032	-0.093	-0.282b	-0.176b	-0.164b	0.017
										0.528	0.064	0.000	0.000	0.001	0.762
LDL-C										1.000	0.149b	0.074	0.000	0.022	0.085
											0.003	0.142	10.000	0.664	0.138
FBG											1.000	0.119a	0.111a	0.086	0.034
												0.018	0.027	0.086	0.558
UA												1.000	0.465b	0.403b	-0.003
													0.000	0.000	0.961
Cr													1.000	0.706b	-0.010
														0.000	0.858
Cys-C														1.000	-0.026
															0.648
BMI															1.000

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01. BMI: Body mass index; Cr: Creatinine; Cys-C: Cystatin-C; FBG: Fasting blood glucose; G-17: Gastrin-17; Hp-IgG: Helicobacter pylori-immunoglobulin G; LDL-C: Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol; PGI: Pepsinogen I; PGII: Pepsinogen II; TC: Total cholesterol; HDL-C: High-density lipoprotein cholesterol; TG: Triglyceride; UA: Uric acid.