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Fig. 4 | Environmental Health

Fig. 4

From: Occupational quartz and particle exposure affect systemic levels of inflammatory markers related to inflammasome activation and cardiovascular disease

Fig. 4

Pearson correlation heatmap of the inflammatory markers of the study using the average morning sample values (n = 40) and selected individual properties (BMI, age, smoking). Correlations coefficients < 0.3 are not visualized. All but six of the correlations with a coefficient > 0.3 had a p-value < 0.05. The six features > 0.05 all had p-values between 0.05 and 0.06. Box Cox transformation was applied to normalize the distribution of the data. White blood cell counts were excluded to improve readability of the figure. NLR: neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio, LMR: lymphocyte-monocyte ratio, casp1 act.: caspase-1 activation of monocytes ex vivo following indicated activators; LPS: lipopolysaccharide, ATP: adenosine triphosphate

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