Table 3.

Associations between quartiles of sRAGE levels and silent brain infarct, stratified by race-ethnic group

		Model 1†			Model 2‡
		Odds ratio	95% Confidence interval	P	Odds ratio	95% Confidence interval	P
Non-Hispanic White	Quartile 1(referent)	--			--
	Quartile 2	1.67	0.29–9.54	0.57	1.49	0.22–10.09	0.68
	Quartile 3	1.10	0.19–6.20	0.92	1.11	0.18–6.85	0.91
	Quartile 4	2.45	0.51–11.78	0.26	2.62	0.48–14.40	0.27
Non-Hispanic Black	Quartile 1(referent)	--			--
	Quartile 2	1.71	0.75–3.87	0.20	1.85	0.74–4.60	0.19
	Quartile 3	1.28	0.55–3.01	0.56	1.18	0.45–3.08	0.74
	Quartile 4	0.14	0.02–1.12	0.06	0.13	0.02–1.13	0.06
Hispanic	Quartile 1(referent)	--			--
	Quartile 2	0.95	0.54–1.66	0.84	1.00	0.55–1.83	0.99
	Quartile 3	0.71	0.39–1.30	0.27	0.86	0.45–1.64	0.65
	Quartile 4	0.57	0.30–1.07	0.08	0.50	0.25–0.99	0.05

^†Model 1: unadjusted

^‡Model 2: adjusted for age, sex, education, smoking, blood glucose, diastolic blood pressure, systolic blood pressure, low density lipoprotein, high density lipoprotein and estimated glomerular filtration rate