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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 12.
Published in final edited form as: Mult Scler. 2011 Jan 6;17(6):666–671. doi: 10.1177/1352458510394398

Table 2. Predictors of Viral Antibody Levels in Multivariate Models.

VCA EBNA CMV HSV-1 HSV-2
Whole No
outliers
Whole No
outliers
Whole No outliers Whole No outliers Whole No
outliers
Model 1 n=120 n=102 n=118 n=103 n=40 n=30 n=56 n=47 n=32 n=23
Vitamin


D
0.01

(−0.02, 0.03)

p=0.63
0.00

(−0.02, 0.02)

p=0.95
0.00

(−0.01, 0.00)

p=0.25
0.00

(−0.004,

0.003)

p=0.75
0.03

(0.00, 0.06)

p=0.024
0.00

(−0.02, 0.03)

p=0.71
−0.03

(−0.10, 0.04)

p=0.37
−0.02

(−0.08, 0.03)

p=0.36
0.03

(0.00, 0.07)

p=0.08
0.04

(0.01, 0.07)

p=0.015
Age


(per year)
0.01

(−0.06, 0.07)

p=0.83
−0.01,

(−0.08, 0.05)

p=0.64
0.00

(−0.01, 0.02)

p=0.75
0.00

(−0.01, 0.01)

p=0.76
0.03

(−0.05, 0.10)

p=0.48
0.00

(−0.06, 0.05)

p=0.87
−0.17

(−0.35, 0.01)

p=0.071
−0.29

(−0.48, −0.10)

p=0.003
0.05

(−0.05, 0.15)

p=0.28
0.06

(−0.02, 0.13)

p=0.13
DRB1 + −0.02

(−0.44, 0.39)

p=0.91
0.04

(−0.33, 0.40)

p=0.84
0.08

(−0.01, 0.17)

p=0.073
0.02

(−0.05, 0.08)

p=0.62
0.10

(−0.45, 0.66)

p=0.71
0.13

(−0.26, 0.51)

p=0.50
0.15

(−1.19, 1.48)

p=0.83
1.07

(−0.09, 2.22)

p=0.071
−0.22

(−1.01, 0.57)

p=0.57
−0.14

(−0.65, 0.38)

p=0.58
Non-


white
0.34

(−0.14, 0.81)

p=0.16
0.14

(−0.29, 0.56)

p=0.53
−0.03

(−0.13, 0.07)

p=0.52
−0.05

(−0.13, 0.03)

p=0.22
−0.22

(−0.99, 0.55)

p=0.56
−0.37

(−0.97, 0.24)

p=0.23
−0.19

(−2.23, 1.86)

p=0.86
−2.08

(−3.94, −0.23)

p=0.028
0.89

(−0.40, 2.18)

p=0.17
1.26

(0.16, 2.36)

p=0.027
Hispanic 0.58

(0.16, 1.01)

p=0.008
0.50

(0.13, 0.87)

p=0.009
−0.03

(−0.12, 0.06)

p=0.50
−0.03

(−0.10, 0.04)

p=0.35
0.45

(−0.23, 1.14)

p=0.19
0.25

(−0.29, 0.80)

p=0.35
0.80

(−1.01, 2.62)

p=0.38
−0.06

(−1.65, 1.52)

p=0.94
0.72

(−0.45, 1.88)

p=0.22
0.80

(−0.01, 1.61)

p=0.053
Model 2 n=120 n=99 n=118 n=103 n=40 n=26 n=56 n=41 n=32 n=26
Vitamin

D
−0.17

(−0.70, 0.35)

p=0.51
−0.29

(−0.83, 0.25)

p=0.29
−0.05

(−0.16, 0.06)

p=0.36
−0.03

(−0.11, 0.04)

p=0.40
0.60

(−0.06, 1.26)

p=0.074
(dropped) −0.89

(−2.37, 0.58)

p=0.23
−0.54

(−1.69, 0.61)

p=0.35
0.45

(−0.45, 1.36)

p=0.31
0.42

(−0.26, 1.10)

p=0.21
Age

(per year)
0.01

(−0.05, 0.08)

p=0.75
−0.02

(−0.08, 0.04)

p=0.59
0.00

(−0.01, 0.02)

p=0.79
0.00

(−0.01,

0.01),

p=0.55
0.03

(−0.04, 0.11)

p=0.36
0.00

(−0.06, 0.07)

p=0.87
−0.16

(−0.34, 0.02)

p=0.085
−0.21

(−0.38, −0.05)

p=0.013
0.05

(−0.05, 0.16)

p=0.30
0.05

(−0.01, 0.12)

p=0.12
DRB1 + −0.02

(−0.44, 0.39)

p=0.91
0.08

(−0.29, 0.44)

p=0.67
0.08

(−0.01, 0.17)

p=0.069
0.02

(−0.04, 0.08)

p=0.57
0.06

(−0.51, 0.62)

p=0.84
0.03

(−0.36, 0.43)

p=0.87
0.18

(−1.15, 1.50),

p=0.79
−0.21

(−1.33, 0.90),

p=0.70
−0.21

(−1.03, 0.62)

p=0.61
0.06

(−0.42, 0.54)

p=0.80
Non-

white
0.32

(−0.15, 0.79)

p=0.18
0.12

(−0.30, 0.53)

p=0.58
−0.02

(−0.12, 0.08)

p=0.65
−0.02

(−0.10, 0.05)

p=0.56
−0.40

(−1.2, 0.39)

0.31
−0.44

(−1.08, 0.21)

p=0.17
0.01

(−2.01, 2.03)

p=0.99
−0.10

(−2.27, 2.07)

p=0.93
0.58

(−0.69, 1.84)

p=0.36
0.58

(−0.22, 1.38)

p=0.15
Hispanic 0.54

(0.13, 0.96)

p=0.011
0.45

(0.10, 0.81),

p=0.013
−0.02

(−0.11, 0.07)

p=0.60
−0.02

(−0.09, 0.04)

p=0.44
0.25

(−0.41, 0.90),

p=0.45
0.15

(−0.36, 0.66)

p=0.55
0.94

(−0.81, 2.70)

p=0.29
1.09

(−0.80, 2.99)

p=0.25
0.48

(−0.69, 1.66)

p=0.41
0.35

(−0.42, 1.12)

p=0.36

Model 1= continuous vitamin D; Model 2= binary vitamin D; no meaningful change if day of year of blood draw added; one or two subjects were dropped from each model due to missing covariates