Background: Several studies have reported increased levels of inflammatory biomarkers in chronic kidney disease (CKD), but data from the general population are sparse. In this study, we assesse
Introduction: C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio (CAR) is a prognostic marker in various diseases that represents patients’ inflammation and nutritional status. Here, we aimed to investigate the prog
Recently, several inflammatory markers, including the uric acid to HDL cholesterol ratio (UHR), triglyceride/HDL cholesterol ratio (THR), systemic inflammatory index (SII), and C-reactive protein to a
Additional file 1. Pearson correlation analysis. Pearson correlation analysis between variables considered in this study (Hb, HIV-related factors, markers of iron homeostasis, of immune activation and
BackgroundEnzymatic activity measurements of the highly oxidative enzyme myeloperoxidase (MPO), which is implicated in many diseases, are widely used in the literature, but often suffer from nonspecif
