Offspring of parents with Balkan Endemic Nephropathy have higher C-reactive protein levels suggestive of inflammatory processes: a longitudinal study

Table 4 Adjusted geometric means for C-reactive protein comparing offspring status and parental history of BEN^†

	C-reactive protein (mg/dL) Repeated measurement analysis (200 participants, 349 observations)
	Adjusted geometric mean	5–95% confidence limit		p-value (F-test)
Offspring of BEN patient	0.62	0.41	0.94	0.04
Offspring of control patient	0.49	0.31	0.77
Parental history of BEN:
both	0.64	0.41	1.0	0.026
mother	0.58	0.37	0.91
father	0.43	0.27	0.68
none	0.42	0.28	0.63

† Statistically controlled for ex-smoking, history of cystitis, administration of steroid hormones

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