Table 3.

Risk ratios of per 10 mg/dL higher Lp (a) levels for IR on a categorical scale in men.

Lp (a), mg/dL	Crude		Partially		Fully
	OR (95%CI)	P	OR (95%CI)	P	OR (95%CI)	P
≤3.7	reference		reference		reference
3.7-6.5	0.66(0.54-0.82)	<0.01	0.66(0.53-0.82)	<0.01	0.67(0.54-0.85)	<0.01
6.5-10.8	0.61(0.49-0.77)	<0.01	0.62(0.50-0.78)	<0.01	0.68(0.54-0.86)	<0.01
10.8-21.95	0.60(0.48-0.75)	<0.01	0.61(0.48-0.76)	<0.01	0.69(0.54-0.88)	<0.01
≥21.95	0.49(0.39-0.61)	<0.01	0.50(0.39-0.63)	<0.01	0.56(0.44-0.72)	<0.01
	P<0.01 for trend		P<0.01 for trend		P<0.01 for trend

Crude, partially and fully denotes progressive adjustment of ORs for the confounding factors as in Table 2 .