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Table 3 Interaction between waist-to-height ratio and sex, age, type 2 diabetes, hypertension

From: Ethnic differences in the association between waist-to-height ratio and albumin-creatinine ratio: the observational SUNSET study

   

Dif

95 %-CI

p-value interaction

Sex

WHtR

(per 0.1)

0.355

0.154-0.555

 
 

Sex

(male)

−0.55

−1.52-0.43

 
 

WHtR *Sex

 

0.047

−0.131-0.225

0.60

Age

WHtR

 

0.729

0.158-1.300

 
 

Age

(years)

0.04

−0.02-0.11

 
 

WHtR *Age

 

−0.008

−0.020-0.004

0.19

Type 2 diabetes

WHtR

(per 0.1)

0.383

0.186-0.579

 
 

Type 2 diabetes

 

1.45

0.00-2.89

 
 

WHtR *Type 2 diabetes

 

−0.120

−0.354-0.114

0.32

Hypertension

WHtR

(per 0.1)

0.334

0.133-0.535

 
 

Hypertension

 

−0.15

−1.16-0.87

 
 

WHtR *Hypertension

 

0.115

−0.060-0.291

0.20

  1. Dif = difference, CI = confidence interval, WHtR = waist-to-height ratio, bold = p-value ≤0.05 and p ≤ 0.10 for the interaction term, Model includes sex, age, ethnicity, smoking, body mass index, hypertension, type 2 diabetes and listed interaction term.
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