| Total subjects | Low CD34-positive cells (≤ 0.93 cells/μL) | High CD34-positive cells (> 0.93 cells/μL) | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | r | p | r | p | r | p |
No. of participants | 269 | 135 | 134 | |||
Age | 0.17 | 0.005 | 0.13 | 0.141 | 0.21 | 0.013 |
Systolic blood pressure | 0.14 | 0.023 | 0.17 | 0.047 | 0.11 | 0.212 |
Body mass index (BMI) | 0.01 | 0.810 | 0.05 | 0.592 | − 0.01 | 0.864 |
Serum triglycerides (TG) | − 0.01 | 0.874 | 0.01 | 0.865 | − 0.03 | 0.752 |
Serum HDL-cholesterol (HDLc) | − 0.03 | 0.593 | − 0.13 | 0.125 | 0.06 | 0.480 |
γ-Glutamyltranspeptidase (γ-GTP) | 0.04 | 0.517 | − 0.03 | 0.691 | 0.12 | 0.179 |
Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) | − 0.003 | 0.966 | 0.02 | 0.781 | − 0.03 | 0.758 |
Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) | 0.07 | 0.255 | 0.10 | 0.243 | 0.03 | 0.697 |
White blood cell count (WBC) | 0.11 | 0.086 | 0.17 | 0.051 | 0.05 | 0.525 |
Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) | 0.15 | 0.011 | 0.31 | < 0.001 | 0.01 | 0.892 |