Table 3 : CKD stage wise correlations of cardiovascular biomarkers with LVMI.

	CKD Stage 3 (n=40) LVMI (g/m2)		CKD Stage 4 (n=40) LVMI (g/m2)		CKD Stage 5 (n=40) LVMI (g/m2)
	( r )	(p-Value)	( r )	(p-Value)	( r )	(p-Value)
Hb( gm)P	-0.805	(0.0001)	-0.836	(0.0001)	-0.699	(0.0001)
Serum cTn-T (>0.01 ng/ml)	0.480	(0.002)P	0.451	(0.003)S	0.403	(0.010)S
Plasma NT-pro- BNP (pg/ml)S	0.687	(0.0001)	0.783	(0.0001)	0.693	(0.0001)
Serum hs-CRP (mg/L)S	0.331	(0.037)	0.400	(0.010)	0.401	(0.010)
UACR (mg/g of creatinine)S	0.811	(0.0001)	0.556	(0.0001)	0.345	(0.029)

S: spearman's rho correlation coefficient; P=Pearson's correlation coefficient; (r)=Correlation