Table 2.

Leukocyte telomere length in patients with celiac disease and controls assessed by mixed linear model and estimates of fixed effect size

Parameter	Estimate	95% CI	P-value
Celiac disease	0.112	−0.017 to 0.241	0.088
Sex (male)	−0.036	−0.251 to 0.178	0.178
Age (yr)	−0.027	−0.035 to −0.020	<0.001
Tobacco smoking			0.799
Alcohol (units/wk)			0.025
0	Reference
1–3	−0.424	−0.684 to −0.164	0.001
4–7	−0.323	−0.670 to 0.024	0.068
8–14	−0.737	−1.34 to −0.135	0.016
15+	−0.920	−2.35 to 0.510	0.207
Missing	−0.438	−0.904 to 0.027	0.065